... and we're still a few MPH short of Category 8 hurricanes, too.
The sensible thing to do would be to focus building on the inland side of coastal cities. The ocean might rise, but it's still gotta make a beach somewhere. You can just roll back until it settles.
Of course, people don't want to do that, so they're wasting the best time they have to get ahead of the problem.
If you don't want to deal with coastal storms, then you can move inland, but humans tend to prefer settling near water. So you're looking at lake and riverfront, and there's less of that.
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Date: 2024-09-17 09:48 am (UTC)The sensible thing to do would be to focus building on the inland side of coastal cities. The ocean might rise, but it's still gotta make a beach somewhere. You can just roll back until it settles.
Of course, people don't want to do that, so they're wasting the best time they have to get ahead of the problem.
If you don't want to deal with coastal storms, then you can move inland, but humans tend to prefer settling near water. So you're looking at lake and riverfront, and there's less of that.