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Originally Posted by Dutch
Oh, and if the populated coastlines flood over the course of the next 100 years, those people don't drown. They move. Just saying.
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It's not quite that simple. Yeah, they move, but at what cost? It's one thing for a few families to move to another location. But what about tens of millions relocating because entire coastline areas are disappearing under water? What about the massive corresponding rise in property values at the new locations and the complete loss of property value in the flooding areas? What about the businesses that have to relocate, especially the ones involving manufacturing/assembly and the cost of rebuilding their facilities elsewhere? What about the cost of expanding the infrastructure of the cities and towns where the coastliners relocate - roads, sewers, power lines, etc.?
In short, it's not some simple equation of "people move". Yeah, they move, but at a potentially huge burden to our economy.