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The UK is trying to reestablish tidal marshes to control storm surges which will only get worse with climate change. I’m sure there are some scenarios where ri
by hinkley 1y ago
The UK is trying to reestablish tidal marshes to control storm surges which will only get worse with climate change.
I’m sure there are some scenarios where rice fields could be added as additional depth to this buffer, via farm subsidies. It doesn’t matter if it’s profitable, if it’s nearly profitable and it reduces damage from ten, twenty, or even fifty year storms. You can divert money from remediation into prevention.
- aitchnyu 1y agoDoes this mean they have to expect sudden floods of salt water? Pokkali rice in Kerala is supposed to thrive in that.
- hinkley 1y agoRestoration wise, you’re going to want actual salt marshes on the coast. Up to the historical range of those biomes at least. The USDA reworked their fallow fields program a couple decades ago to pay for fallow fields low in watersheds, to reduce erosion and eutrophication. My reasoning is that you could use rice paddies to similar effect. Because they serve as containment ponds. So in this hypothetical you restore the coastline, then approach the farmers you didn’t displace about what to grow in their lowlands.