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Originally Posted by sendler
This sea level rise world map is interesting. Look around as you select back and forth between 0 and 3 meters rise.
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The sea level has already risen about 8" in the past 100 years. Where are the hordes of people that rant about how horrible their lives have been in the past century because the seas rose 8"?
Raising sea levels 3 meters will take centuries; longer than the US has been around to build everything it has now. Replacing old things with better things is what we do. It's hard to imagine great cities coming to ruin, but that is inevitably what happens to every city.
I played with the slider and set the sea level to 60M rise, and the world still pretty much looked as it does now, with the vast majority of the land mass still available.
Sure, rising sea levels is probably bad and I would choose against it if there was a realistic choice, however it won't make the top 20 list of worst things to happen in most peoples lifetimes, just as it hasn't made the list of the worst things to happen to our current elderly population.