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Old 11-07-2019, 04:16 PM   #7831 (permalink)
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"If only there was no erosion, no flood, no permafrost melting, we would still be over there," she says. "But we'll get used to it."
They're moving across a river. The apparent connection to climate is that permafrost melting has increased river flows and thus erosion on it's banks.

I think it's a good counterpoint to the Vinay Gupta video I posted yesterday. Between in-fighting within the village and institutional paralysis above them, nothing happens except money goes away.

An entrepreneur could bring in shipping containers and create a pop-up town that employs people to make and expand it. Archigram covered this in the 1970s.

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