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Originally Posted by New Era
40% of the world's population lives within 100km of a coast. The potential for massive migration because of sea level rise is an existential threat the United States military sees as one of the greatest risks to peace and political stability around the globe. Imagine if sea levels rise and force a displacement of that population. What would a forced migration of 3 billion people look like and how would it impact other regions? These would be people who would have lost everything and would be starting over with very few resources at their disposal. The Mad Max scenario seems unlikely IMO, but this definitely has a bit of a World War Z feel to it. This is a scale unlike anything the planet has ever seen. The forced expulsion of Germans after WWII was seen as humanitarian disaster, so imagine an event like that, but on a global scale and a thousand times larger, would ultimately look like?
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If this were legitimately the track we were on, the most powerful people in the world would not be investing in coastal properties. If we were 50-100 years away from 40% of the planet’s population migrating further inland, we’d see coastal property values plummeting today, while Canadian Prairie & American Midwest property values skyrocket, today.
And yet...