[RedDevil]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

One has to do is move slightly above sea level.
So there's no fertile ground slightly above sea level?
You make it sound like man's actions are some how comparable to the sea level rising 300 feet all on its own.
Let's hope there's another 300 feet of sea level rise before the next ice age.

Do you really not know or do you just pretend?

At the danger of elaborating the obvious:
The most common source for fertile grounds are river deposits; the finer the better. The finest sediments occur where the water flows the slowest: the river deltas where the river meets the sea. Long winding rivers slowly building up deposits in their bends and eroding the marshy lands around them, winding back and forth and in time covering all of the land with deposits.
This happens at sea level or very slightly above. Higher laying lands don't have fresh deposits and get poorer and poorer over time.

Over 8,000 years the sea level has remained more or less the same. So the deltas have expanded out and over shallow seas, covering them with layer after layer of fine clay.

I live in the Netherlands which is a relatively small country with a high population density. At 52 degrees North is does not get abundant sunshine. Yet, the ground is extremely well suited for agriculture. And it shows: this tiny speck of a country is the 2nd largest exporter of agricultural goods.


Now what you need to know is that half of our country is below sea level. And that part does produce the vast majority of our food, even though it also has 80% of our population living there taking up valuable space with roads and houses. The higher parts are more sandy and yield less crop.

Now if we were to lose the lower half of our country the other half would likely be strained to feed the people living there, never mind those who were displaced, never mind exports.

The same is true elsewhere. If you look at the map to compare f.i. Russia and Bangladesh, which country would you think houses more people?
The tiny one that is all at sea level of course.
Everywhere you'll see dense population wherever the ground is low and fertile.

And now you'll see them run into problems, like Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia and the second largest metropole in the world.
Which will be abandoned for Nusantara on Borneo soon due to excessive flooding.
To be fair, the city is sinking on its own and would duly flood over even without rising sea levels. But the latter does hasten the process.

But who cares about Bangladesh, or the Netherlands, or Venice, Florida, food, life? We want oil. We wanna go in a flaming chariot!