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by johndunne 292 days ago
I’m not sure the people who own property next to ‘at risk’ coastlines will agree. As a whole, society may continue but there’s a lot of people at risk of losing their property as a result of rising sea levels. Probably decades from now.
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We have government subsidized insurance in the USA on coastal properties. The rest of us will pay for it.
Much more expensive next time as we're not only subsidizing people's insurance but subsidizing moving them somewhere else. Orders of magnitude higher cost I imagine.
Its certainly not existential. If anything itll probably spur some kind of new invention wed be glad to have (think WW2 and fertilizer)