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It's because China isn't white. So people first look for explanations how it's about them not being proper white protestants and doing it all wrong. Here in th
by ralfn 5y ago
It's because China isn't white. So people first look for explanations how it's about them not being proper white protestants and doing it all wrong.
Here in the Netherlands we always had this problem and we engineered around it. We were prepared for a once in a 100 year event (based on models on the 90'ties). Our current calculations however suggest this will happen once every couple of years now.
It is the reason we have 0 casualties thus far. But all those investments we made only made economic sense in the assumption it would solve the problem for a very long time..
It looks like to prevent property damage (and the emotional price of not feeling safe in your own house) we would need to spend that money again and again. Unclear if it will be enough, because the as a society we lost the ability to predict the climate changes . It's too chaotic now. We need more datapoints