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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
I wonder how many of you are hoping to have children in the future?
If you have a child in the next ten years or so, he/she might be about seventy-five in the year 2100 - and that's not so old by today's expectations.
According to this article, if carbon emissions continue at present rates, a sea-level rise of 2 metres/6 feet is possible by the year 2100.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.2a70a9f22bfb
You can click here to find maps that show the America that your child might face in his/her retirement years, though it only shows the extent of flooding. Mercifully, perhaps, it doesn't show the hoards of refugees moving inland from the coasts, which will make the recent Syrian refugee crisis in Europe look like something, er, on a smaller scale:-
https://ss2.climatecentral.org/#12/4...feet&pois=hide |
I'm honestly not surprised about the sea level. Sea level here has risen by about .5 meters recently and Queensland especially has been experiencing quite a bit of flooding. I suppose we don't focus enough on climate change (even though we were climate tax happy for a while down in aussieland) and if these big corporate businesses stopped being so busy with their own inflation, perhaps they could focus on their extensive gas emissions and pollution rate. Meh, I suppose we've caught onto it now, though... but it does sound like one scary future.