What America will look like once global warming melts the polar ice caps

[True Blue Door]

41. Inland seas have their advantages.

I'm sure the economic transition would be rough, but perhaps something could be gained by having Central California and Louisiana as inland seas. And that map doesn't show what kind of effects that would have on the surrounding environments. I'm sure some would desertify, but others would become moist and fertile.

It should also be noted that historically, peninsulas and archipelagos produce more dynamic, more creative societies than ones living in contiguous lumps of land. So coastlines that have a lot of peninsulas and archipelagos added to them could become useful after society had adjusted.

Just thinking on the bright side.