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where do you get the idea that populations will slowly move uphill? The effects are non-linear. What you see is that Bangladesh goes from being a habitable cit
by mellavora 7y ago
where do you get the idea that populations will slowly move uphill?
The effects are non-linear. What you see is that Bangladesh goes from being a habitable city one year to one which is underwater 1/4 of the time, look at the massive floods there this year. Next year might be dry, but the year after that? It is already not sustainably habitable, but the people still live there.
China (noting that most of their industrial cities are coastal) might have a bit more time, but it is going to mean rebuilding all of the infrastructure they have built--where do the resources come from for that?
And another question, before the people move, are they going to clean up all of their toxic waste? If not, it all goes into the water with the flooding, which then kills their uphill livelihood because they live next to a huge pool of poison.
Fuck, after the hurricane hit Texas, they decided to scrap environmentally sound cleanup because it was "too expensive given the scale of the loss." If the US can't clean up, why would developing countries?
- kfrzcode 7y ago> Fuck, after the hurricane hit Texas, they decided to scrap environmentally sound cleanup because it was "too expensive given the scale of the loss." If the US can't clean up, why would developing countries? Source? I'm not sure I've heard about this...
- leereeves 7y ago> What you see is that Bangladesh goes from being a habitable city one year to one which is underwater 1/4 of the time, look at the massive floods there this year. Next year might be dry, but the year after that? It is already not sustainably habitable, but the people still live there. Really bad example. Floods have always been a problem in Bangladesh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floods_in_Bangladesh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floods_in_Bangladesh
- tux1968 7y ago> Bangladesh goes from being a habitable city Which city in Bangladesh are you talking about?
- rayiner 7y agoBangladesh’s GDP loss from climate change under a 3C scenario is under 10%: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018EF000922 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...