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Right?? I thought the author was making somewhat reasonable points until they just shrugged off a prediction that sea level will rise 2 feet in the next 80 year
by thefreeman 7y ago
Right?? I thought the author was making somewhat reasonable points until they just shrugged off a prediction that sea level will rise 2 feet in the next 80 years or so with "Well 1/3 of the Netherlands is below sea level and they are ok soo......". Like that is even remotely equivalent to the sea level of entire planet rising by 2 feet.
- WorldMaker 7y agoIt's also very quietly dismissive of centuries of engineering work that has gone into the Netherlands. Doing that over a couple of decades instead of a century? That's going to be a lot more work. (And likely the straw to break the camel's back on such already heavily burdened engineering projects like The Netherlands and Venice.) I saw one breakdown of the inflation-adjusted engineering costs once somewhere that the Netherlands has invested over the centuries and I recall it being a stunning amount of money in today's dollars.