I mean: as you know, we do. But lawmakers and anti yimby advocates do not. Several anti YIMBYs think our pro transit stance is a joke. One “””progressive””” such person suggested “people like us” don’t ride the bus.
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Bangladesh is going to sink and no one really thinks about that or cares to suggest how we might solve the problems that will cause.
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also a very real possibility that large swathes of India become literally too hot for human life
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the "good" news is those crises are probably far enough down the line that we can address them *after* the herculean task of decarbonization rather than simultaneously with it
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Have a look around flood.firetree.net/ set to +60m sea level rise (roughly the "all ice caps melt" scenario) and see what's flooded...
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Depends what you mean by "entire", I guess?
But also look at other places: nearly all coastal cities, but also London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Beijing, Wuhan, Baghdad, Philadelphia, Washington, Houston, Bangladesh, Florida, Louisiana, Netherlands, Denmark, ...
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Very unlikely within our lifetimes, but after hundreds of years, especially if we keep emitting CO₂, I think it's possible. I don't remember details, though.
Jul 8, 2019 · 7:35 AM UTC