Sea Level Rise
Dec. 14th, 2019 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmith ... could displace 1/5 of the world's population by 2100.
That sounds low to me. So many people live in coastal cities, and most of those will get washed away by rising water and/or storms (which are connected) followed by -- and this is likely something they're missing -- further upheavals and displacements as the former beach slumps inland. Especially near saltwater, things that grow by the beach have to be tougher than those inland. I don't think they're accounting for farms lost to salt winds as the beachline moves, or the loss of supporting cities as their former customers on the coast evacuate, just to give a couple of examples.
That sounds low to me. So many people live in coastal cities, and most of those will get washed away by rising water and/or storms (which are connected) followed by -- and this is likely something they're missing -- further upheavals and displacements as the former beach slumps inland. Especially near saltwater, things that grow by the beach have to be tougher than those inland. I don't think they're accounting for farms lost to salt winds as the beachline moves, or the loss of supporting cities as their former customers on the coast evacuate, just to give a couple of examples.
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Date: 2019-12-15 11:41 am (UTC)Well ...
Date: 2019-12-15 11:53 am (UTC)Re: Well ...
Date: 2019-12-15 12:00 pm (UTC)Re: Well ...
Date: 2019-12-15 05:43 pm (UTC)Morgane of Ivrol trilogy anyone? Remember the book where they went back to what would have been the future happenings, and the people had adapted to the new, more watery surroundings?
Yep.
-T~