Spiderman
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- Oct 2, 2013
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It's disastrous for people who live near the coast, that's 2 billion or so peeps who are moving inland, causing problems for the people already living inland. So that's a lot of peeps, 3 or 4 billion out of 7 billion. And don't forget that these displaced people lost their means to grow food, so the rest of us will have to make that up, spiking food price. Yes, it could be really bad.
There is no reliable prediction as to how much sea levels will rise.
Your inevitable doom scenario is best taken with a grain of salt.
What is reliable is that there is no evidence or prediction that sea levels will remain constant or drop over the time period in question.
You must realize that a rise of 1 foot is no where near as devastating as a rise of 10 feet.
So to assume that sea levels will rise enough to displace billions of people is a bit Chicken Little-ish.