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 Topic: Going GreenGovernance
In Venice, Acqua Alta rising seas flood the streets many times each year. They plan expensive inflatable dams.
Evidence mounts that sea level rise can't be avoided now, absent some miracle of geoengineering, and maybe not even with that.
Even if you're one of those who insists human pollution isn't the cause, the planet is getting warmer, the ice sheets are melting at extreme rates.
When it comes to sea level rise, it's simple to know who will be affected. We know the height of all the land. We don't know the date the seas will reach that level, and we don't know what level they will finally reach before we fix things, but as time passes, we will get better handles on that.
For the people living on low-lying land, there will be calls for the government to help them, at the expense of those on higher ground. There will be efforts to build levees. Houses will be raised on stilts. There will be emergency funds during floods, and eventual funds to help people move.
What if governments declare today that this is coming. That a deadline approaches. Pick your date, but imagine Jan 1, 2030, a date before serious rise will appear.
Anybody who bought their land after the deadline would no longer be eligible to receive government assistance for problems caused by global warmi
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