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11fingerfreak t1_j1kqulk wrote

Reply to comment by Agent_Angelo_Pappas in The $52 billion plan to save New York’s low-lying areas from sea level rise and storm surges by ChiggaOG

There’s nothing we’re going to create that will permanently keep the ocean at bay. The only things we could’ve done are:

  • stop cutting down trees
  • stop putting greenhouse gasses in the air

We collectively choose to do neither. So that’s done and over with. There’s nothing that’s going to change what we did at this point. We adapt or we die and go broke along the way. Pretending there’s some magical terraforming we’re going to engage in that will prevent the ocean from rising at this point is magical thinking.

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