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Environment & Energy

thucythucy

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3. I agree with you about Florida, but

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 14, 2017, 03:40 PM

Dec 2017

other coastal areas might be salvageable.

The Dutch do an amazing job living and prospering in areas that have been below sea level for very many decades.

We have nothing like the system they have in place to protect Amsterdam and other low lying areas. (It's not called "The Netherlands" for nothing).

Of course, it'll take an enormous economic and engineering effort, which would dwarf the Apollo project. Then again, so will evacuating entire swaths of coastal America.

One way or another, the future of this country, and planet, will look nothing like the present.

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We desperately need The Wall. [View all] OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2017 OP

Wall won't protect us from sea level rise. Binkie The Clown Dec 2017 #1

Pretty bleak outlook Binkie... OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2017 #2

Realism is often called pessimism by optimists. Binkie The Clown Dec 2017 #4

I agree with you about Florida, but thucythucy Dec 2017 #3

Why not just move the coastal population inland a couple hundred miles? The_jackalope Dec 2017 #5

According to NOAA- OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2017 #6

Or we could just let the affected people take care of it themselves. The_jackalope Dec 2017 #7