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I see this argument all the time and it feels like I must be missing something. There is no way people actually believe the whole world can go Dutch, right? I
by rocgf 6y ago
I see this argument all the time and it feels like I must be missing something. There is no way people actually believe the whole world can go Dutch, right?
I hope this doesn't come across as overly-aggressive, but it seems to me like you don't really understand much about how the Dutch lived below sea levels for centuries.
Yes, over many centuries, they have built all sorts of contraptions in order to gain more land from the sea or lakes. But this is expensive, takes up a vast amount of skill and planning and is only feasible in certain terrain. The Netherlands is also a small and very rich country. To believe that the whole world can do this is complete insanity.
- dodobirdlord 6y agoThe whole world doesn’t need to. A sea level rise of 2m doesn’t matter for most of the world, or even for most coastal regions. And of the coastal regions that will be impacted most can be sacrificed with limited disruption. For the much more limited areas of the world that are coastal, have low elevation even well inland, and are densely populated or otherwise economically valuable, flood control is totally realistic (with the exception of some places like Florida that are screwed by the underlying geology).
- peterashford 6y agoA massive amount of humanity lives on or near the coast. In the US, 40% of the population is coastal. The cost of walling off the entire coast would be astronomical.
- dodobirdlord 6y agoI think you didn’t read the comment you responded to.