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Environment & Energy

OAITW r.2.0

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6. According to NOAA-

Reply to The_jackalope (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 14, 2017, 05:26 PM

Dec 2017

"In 2010, 123.3 million people, or 39 percent of the nation's population lived in counties directly on the shoreline. This population is expected to increase by 8% from 2010 to 2020."

That is a significant relocation effort. We need to look at the cost/benefit of infrastructure investment vs. population relocation.

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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