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> Remediating climate change will involve unimaginably labor-intensive tasks, like relocating every coastal city in the world kilometers inland Isn't sea level
by jeffreyrogers 6y ago
> Remediating climate change will involve unimaginably labor-intensive tasks, like relocating every coastal city in the world kilometers inland
Isn't sea level rise likely to only be a few feet? Regardless, Holland seems fine living below sea level. I don't think we really need to move cities kilometers inland.
- LatteLazy 6y ago2.3m per degree C. That's about 7ft per degree. And we're looking at a 5C (aka 35ft) rise. And that's without the "leverage" of flat land: you might have to go a mile in land to find the first place that's an inch about the beach. Ever been on a flat beach when the tide came in? You can lose a lot of land to a very small rise in sea...
- jeffreyrogers 6y agoThanks. Either way, it seems much simpler to do something similar to what Holland has done than to move millions of people (hundreds of millions if we're talking about the entire world) inland.
- LatteLazy 6y agoBroadly I agree, but I think that is location specific: can you imagine doing that over the whole east coast? Is the beach\seabed stable enough? What about rivers going out, can we cope with them? Will anyone want to live in Miami if there's no beach? Will we need Mexico\Canada to do their sections to match? I think smaller local mixed solutions are more likely given the scale and the US approach to government...
- thanatos519 6y agoI live in Holland so I'm a bit worried about what is going to happen to this place which was already below sea level, despite having the world's best water engineers, a functional cooperative society, and no shortage of capital.