Flooding Homes

[ysabetwordsmith]

Vast numbers of homes will be flooded due to climate change.   The Paris Agreement that America isn't even supporting?  It would reduce those numbers by a measly 10%.

If you live close to coastal water with a sloping margin, it would be prudent to move away from it.  Coasts with high cliffs are less prone to flooding but still subject to worsening storms.  If you do not live near a coast, don't move there.  If you plan to build a house, carefully research locations and choose somewhere not prone to whatever your local disasters are.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

That's very sensible of you. At least New Zealand has mountains, though -- you might lose the rim, but not the whole country. Some other island nations are only a few meters above sea level. And artificial structures don't count, only natural land above water. They are justifiably worried that if the sea level rises, other nations will refuse to recognize them anymore.

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[imhilien]

I do feel sorry for island nations that might get swamped. :(

A curious thing about some NZ coastal earthquakes - the seabed rises up! There was one a few years ago by a small town where the seabed rose four metres. A group of volunteers went to rescue lots of confused lobsters and other sealife and put them back in the ocean, which was now further out.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

>> I do feel sorry for island nations that might get swamped. :( <<

Me too. I think that artificial islands would be one solution, and acquiring land elsewhere another; but established nations are violently opposed to both, and have the power to prevent either. Obliteration is a very credible threat.

Which is also a form of genocide.

>> A curious thing about some NZ coastal earthquakes - the seabed rises up! There was one a few years ago by a small town where the seabed rose four metres. A group of volunteers went to rescue lots of confused lobsters and other sealife and put them back in the ocean, which was now further out.<<

Yikes! I'm glad people responded though.