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> Dikes will be built * Venice entered the chat * For reference: Dikes are not cheap to build and maintain, securing the dutch coasts cost ran up to $13 bill
by holstvoogd 7y ago
> Dikes will be built
* Venice entered the chat *
For reference:
Dikes are not cheap to build and maintain, securing the dutch coasts cost ran up to $13 billion in 2013. That cover about 700km of coast lines & river sides.
Not sure how many kilometers of dikes will be needed, but based on http://world.bymap.org/Coastlines.html http://world.bymap.org/Coastlines.html even covering 10% of the coast lines will cost more about $1 trillion.
- jschwartzi 7y agoIt’s even worse than that. The land he’s proposing to secure with dikes includes the land area of all of the island nations in the world. None of those nations can afford that. There’s a very subtle racism at play in saying “look the dutch did it so it must be easy.“ The reality is that a lot of poor island nations are going to be destroyed by the actions of a few wealthy nations, and that isn’t the story you hear often. We will lose a ton of arable land. And much of the biodiversity we cherish today will be extinct. There are a lot of children yet to be born to whom we will owe an apology for so thoroughly wrecking the planet.