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What really happens is that areas flood more and more often due to "freak" storms. Eventually they're under water full time, but well before that, nobody can li
by kadoban 5y ago
What really happens is that areas flood more and more often due to "freak" storms. Eventually they're under water full time, but well before that, nobody can live there.
> The natural life of a city building is on the order of 100 years
That's great except sea level rise is going to be a lot faster than that.
- manholio 5y agoWhy would 0.6 m of water make a city unlivable? Will 0.6 m make a place where are no "freak" storms into a place "under water full time"? That is an entirely savage fantasy. 0.6 m is nothing compared to the natural rate of change in a modern city. See for example the embanking of the Thames, or try to imagine how the beaches of New York looked 100 years ago. They were built, rebuilt and raised and redesigned many times over.