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What about all the people living in coastal areas or close to major rivers? That’s like 50% of the population, in addition to much of our shared history (buildi
by akie 7y ago
What about all the people living in coastal areas or close to major rivers? That’s like 50% of the population, in addition to much of our shared history (buildings). It will all be under water and cause large migrations, unsettling much of society. Is that not worth fighting for?
- tim333 7y agoIPCC are projecting 26cm-98cm rise by 2100. So it's more tell the grandkids to build inland a bit.
- cagenut 7y agoit is a weird western media quirk that the first symptom people talk about is sea level rise. I think its an accidental product of all the news reports about melting ice caps and polar bears, so people have scoped the problem as ice melting and water rising in their heads. this is basically, to a first order approximation, wrong. sea level rise, even in a nasty BAU/RCP8.5 scenario is really a next-century problem. we're talking tens of centimeters. meanwhile, vast swaths of the euphrates, indo-gangetic, nile and yellow river deltas will suffer droughts and both successive and concurrent crop failures. the flood of refugees from drought/famine/war into every city around the world will vastly exceed the flood of water at their shoreline (this century).
- akie 7y agoYou're right, I didn't even mention the droughts and famines. I'm Dutch though so perhaps I'm slightly biased or preoccupied :/