RiceLad15
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RE: Climate Change, Alternative Energy, and the like
(01-02-2020 12:38 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: (01-02-2020 11:51 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote: (01-02-2020 10:59 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: I was reading an article in Smithsonian about the migration of man into the Americas via the Bering land bridge (instead of Native Americans, maybe we should call them the First Immigrants).
But the lines that referred to the warming period as the last Ice Age struck me. They said the sea level had risen 400 feet since the days of the land bridge.
Four. Hundred. Feet.
And here we are today scared of a few inches rise.
The difference of course, was that our primitive ancestors could deal with changing seas levels by moving the village, while we industrialized modern humans would have more trouble moving Miami, LA, Seattle, New York, etc.
In fact, nearly all of our major cities are on seacoasts. All of them, to one degree or another, are Democratic strongholds.
Which leads me to think, maybe the impetus from the left to panic over climate change/global warming is fueled by wealthy people with real estate at risk.
I have advocated we spend less time and money trying to reverse what is primarily a natural process and more getting ready for the future. Slowing it is fine if we actually use the extra time to prepare. Of course, we are developing heat resistant strains of grains. However there is the pushback from the antiGMO crowd, which is largely a left group. Kind of working against themselves, it seems to me.
Nearly all of our major cities are on seacoasts? Chicago , Minneapolis, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Orlando, and on and on would like to have a word with you.
And all of the coastal communities that aren't large, urban areas, would like to speak to you about whether or not they are Democratic strongholds. You know that there are a lot of suburban or rural communities along the coast, all along the Gulf and Atlantic, right?
And you do know that there are plenty of coastal communities that are not wealthy, right?
And I don't see the right jumping up and down trying to support climate adaptation legislation - do you?
\So predictable.
Of course, I am aware of Kansas City, Denver, and other large cities inland. But most of the large cities, including the largest, are on a coast. New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Fran, Portland, Seattle, Now Orleans, Boston, lots of others.
I should have expected the nit-picking. Mea culpa. Next time I will compile a list of every settlement in the US, from Muscle Shoals, Ala to Rockport, Texas. Oh, and Biloxi.
Rising sea levels are bad because....?
Rising sea levels are bad because, as you said, our cities are much less mobile. Millions of people, of ALL income levels, live in coastal communities. They have invested in those communities and stand to lose significant value, outside of just property values, as sea levels continue to rise.
We also will see massive migrations away from coastal communities as they become uninhabitable, and those migrants will need to settle elsewhere. That migration will stress infrastructure and community bonds.
And the reason I bolded your comment is that you were making sweeping generalizations that morphed into a hackish, partisan attack. Climate change, and the sea level rise that will come with it, is not a partisan problem.
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