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"We need to start moving people and key infrastructure away from our coasts," warns climate scientist (www.independent.ie)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This really saddens me. I've lived within a few miles the coast basically my whole life and I've seen the floods get worse; Friends' houses getting ruined. The river that flows by my house to the sea regularly consumes the nearest neighborhood to it now, once a year or so. Noone is moving because of it. People are moving here, in fact, and all the new houses are on stilts with first floor parking. I know it's gonna keep getting worse, and when it finally gets bad enough, where are these people gonna move. All the "nice" towns a little further inland are entierly single-family zoned and woefully unprepared for all the people who will have to move. My town's population is like 6 of those "nice towns", and like half of it is gonna be underwater or so flood prone that you can't live there. It's gonna be really bad.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Look on the bright side - in the future those nice inland towns will get to enjoy coastal life too!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

just sell your houses when everything gets flooded, duh!