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If you own your land, and your land becomes unlivable because of climate change... how do you move? Very few people have enough liquid cash on hand to purchase
by snowwrestler 7y ago
If you own your land, and your land becomes unlivable because of climate change... how do you move?
Very few people have enough liquid cash on hand to purchase a new home without first selling their existing home. If the value of the existing home suddenly goes to zero, essentially those people become refugees. And generally speaking, refugees are not welcome when everyone else feels stressed too.
This aspect of climate change--the long-term effect of destroyed property value--is, I think, underappreciated by a lot of people.
- jacquesm 7y agoMoving and starting over might be preferable to perishing. And we're still talking about very wealthy people here in a relative sense. What about those that don't have land and that need to move, especially when the move crosses borders into countries that are reluctant at best to have them? This will get ugly.