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Originally Posted by RustyLugNut
In "primitive times", the move would have been a normal part of life as permanence of settlement wasn't a thing for these and other peoples.
I grew up on a Pacific island where we lived in a bamboo and thatched hut. We had flooding and earthquakes and storms. People simply moved and rebuilt somewhere else.
Sea levels are rising, and have been rising even before there was this idea of AGW. It has happened before and will again. People will adjust. The difference is that we now have billions of people living along waterways. But the slow pace of sea level rise will allow people to adjust. As we always have.
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'Slow pace' isn't part of the climate models.There are 'threshold systems,' which once they go,we'll have rapid sea level rise nobody will be able to adjust to,other than migrate, inland,if they can,abandoning $billions in infrastructure.The velocity of accelerating warming will increase as Earth's albedo deteriorates further,setting up runaway warming, ad infinitum.We're already locked in to around 80-feet of sea level rise due to greenhouse gas concentrations,which continue to grow.Ocean acidification.
The marine food chain will be pushed closer to collapse,and we'll see even lower atmospheric Oxygen content,just to name a few inconveniences.