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> I wonder why CNN have decided to highlight oceans rising and not mention land sinking anywhere in the entire article? Is it possible they have an agenda? Bec
by karlgkk 5mo ago
> I wonder why CNN have decided to highlight oceans rising and not mention land sinking anywhere in the entire article? Is it possible they have an agenda?
Because water incursion is a much more difficult thing to deal with, in terms of infrastructure and prevention.
Also, let me know when the rest of coastal land has the same sinking as N.O.
- verisimi 5mo agoYou work for cnn?
- megabless123 5mo agofunny, i had the same thought but for "common sense" and not CNN
- lostmsu 5mo agoThis doesn't make sense. Both land sinking and water rising contribute together to 11mm/y ground level going closer to sea level. And the sinking has >2x effect.
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- embedding-shape 5mo agoIsn't land sinking something to address locally where it happens, compared to water rising which we're gonna need some sort of global solution for, as it's not just because of one country? If so, one would seem more difficult than the other.
- bobthepanda 5mo agoAlso, in some places land is actually rising.
- pixl97 5mo agoProblem is the sinking isn't really something you can address in this particular case. It's a river delta that is compressing itself. But it's not only this, its land loss due to oil and natural gas practices, oh and its rising sea levels too. Tl;dr they are screwed.
- karlgkk 5mo ago> This doesn't make sense It doesn’t make sense if you think that water incursion has the same solution space as sinking land It doesn’t make sense if you think New Orleans is the only city with this problem So of course, it doesn’t make sense, if you’re unaligned from reality.