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It’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
by jschwartzi 7y ago
It’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.