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For countries like the United States, sea level rise is basically a real estate problem. Either shoreline communities will need expensive infrastructure improv
by dzdt 7y ago
For countries like the United States, sea level rise is basically a real estate problem. Either shoreline communities will need expensive infrastructure improvements to rise faster than the water or will have to abandon the lowest lying areas and retreat.
If you want to experience a New Orleans Mardi Gras, you have only a few decades left, but there are plenty of other places in the U.S. where Louisianans could find a home.
The biggest brunt of climate change will be borne by low-lying countries. Most of Bangladesh is at elevations in danger of flooding in the next century. Where will those 164 million people flee? Will the refugees be accepted or will there be walls and wars?
- Diederich 7y agoI generally agree with this, but one with addition/clarification: it's likely that climate change is driving the extreme conditions that the United States, and the world, are seeing far from the coast, such as historic flooding in the midwest and historic fires in the west. It's also quite possible that the rate at which such extreme weather events are getting worse is increasing. Sea level rise is brutal, and will cause enormous impacts to many millions of people. Weather weirding stands a good chance of bringing epic damage to many millions more.
- selimthegrim 7y agoThe ports of New Orleans and South Louisiana will be preserved whatever the cost, it’s the surrounding parishes outside the floodgates that are toast
- guerrilla 7y ago> will there be walls Bangladesh is very much already surrounded by a literal wall. They will not be accepted in India, as India has consistently made clear.
- yostrovs 7y agoPerhaps the rise in cost of real estate will persuade the Bangladeshis to have fewer children? The effect can happen within one generation.
- m0zg 7y ago>> For countries like the United States, sea level rise is basically a real estate problem Barack Obama doesn't seem to be worried about sea level rise: https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/190822-barack-michelle-obama-marthas-vineyard-50.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024 https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/190822-barack-... Neither is Al Gore: https://moodyeyeview.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/montecito-house.jpg https://moodyeyeview.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/montecito-h... Leo DiCaprio isn't too worried either: https://mansionglobal.com/articles/leonardo-dicaprio-buys-malibu-beachfront-home-from-one-of-trump-s-cabinet-picks-50258 https://mansionglobal.com/articles/leonardo-dicaprio-buys-ma... So yeah, if it's a real estate problem, these guys might have a problem. As to the rest of us, I think we'll start worrying as soon as these canaries in the coal mines, so to speak, start unloading their beachfront mansions for pennies on the dollar.