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[–] Soup 224 points 1 day ago (48 children)

Also that argument is dead on arrival because they expect you and businesses and the entire city to pack up and leave as if it would cost nothing. They also have literally said “just sell your house and move” but like TO WHO?! Who would buy that house if it’s in such a fucked area?!

If anyone ever says “just move” you know they have zero concept of the word “community” or “moving costs” or “nuance”. They just don’t want to address the cause of the problem because they’re, at best, cowards.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear -5 points 1 day ago (17 children)

The problem is a town was built where there should not be one. Flood plains WILL flood. Rebuilding is pointless. It will just be destroyed again. At some point we have to cut our losses.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (9 children)

“A” town didn’t flood, there’s wreckage across the entire southeast. It’s not because people in the south are too stupid to know where to build, it’s because climate change is making hurricanes stronger further inland, resulting in century and thousand year floods happening.

[–] bashbeerbash 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

A drought in south america has caused out of control wildfires that dumped 210 megatons of CO2 in the atmosphere, this year alone.

That's just from wildfires in one continent. Now add it to all the CO2 produced in one year.

The runaway effects are becoming more evident and unfortunately people will have to finally give up on huge swaths of land or be killed. Save the planet, hang a CEO

[–] LustyArgonianMana 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

We should have started building sanctuary cities a decade ago. Unfortunately the wealthy in the world are choosing a Noah's Ark model for climate change because they delusionally think they will survive this. So yeah, billions will die because that's what leadership has wanted. They don't want them to move to better areas. They want "God" to kill them.

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