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Ok, for that to be true, what degree of warming will cause the sea to rise more than mitigations can be put in place?

If we keep warming to 3 degrees, do you think the sea works will not be enough?



It won't matter, because civilization will collapse when ocean ecosystem does, before then.

Collapsing civilization is bad for property values. And for the concept of property as such.


It seems likely the sea rise will be a multi-century, unrelenting, ongoing event of rise upon rise that will not stop at the levels envisaged by anyone planning any mitigations. So, no.

There is a reason scientists are concerned.

On the positive side for the Netherlands, their expertise will be coveted worldwide as hapless nations futilely seek to forestall the inevitable stage by stage.




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