I wrote about Milton and where this is all headedI wrote about Milton and where this is all headed
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"...and a government so soaked through with too-online lib-owning brain rot..." Lovely turn of phrase. Exhausting in its accuracy, but well done.
I read a book called Four Lost Cities that talks about times this has happened in the past (though it was a little different because it wasn’t climate change related).
High school classmate has been updating Facebook, she assumed she’d go back to her apartment once building was repaired but they canceled all leases and gave them 7 days to clear out, with the next storm on the way.
We are well into it all
Appreciated the article, and I agree with much of it, but as someone who spends a lot of time working on this issue, I want to say that there are many ways that planned retreat can be “managed” that don’t cross into the incomprehensible absurdity that you talk about.
They’re all coming here I guess. Montana.
Good article. I checked and the population of New Orleans never got back to where it was before Katrina.
The mechanism by which these epochal changes happen is fascinating. Hadrian's wall separates England from Scotland. Built by the Romans around AD 122, it is an astounding structure. At some point, the last Roman turned around, said goodbye, and walked away. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian...
I was fascinated when I discovered that white settlers had abandoned Florida a couple of times before they managed to make it stick and have always wondered how long it would last