Opinion | Is America Just Going to Abandon Its Towns Falling Into the Ocean?

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Opinion | Is America Just Going to Abandon Its Towns Falling Into the Ocean?

www.nytimes.com /2025/01/04/opinion/climate-change-storms-rural-communties-erosion.html

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Yes. We already do that.
- Hell, we purposely flooded a ton of abandoned/semi-adandonned towns building the dams out East. They made the movie Deliverance entirely about visiting the area before it got flooded. Of course we'd let nature do it too.
- A rare case where betteridge's law is falsified.
  
  That was never actually a law. It just sounds interesting.
  
  whats better I shes law?
- I've been curious about this myself, but haven't heard any news to this effect. Can you provide any examples of this happening in the past (preferably within the last 50 years)?
  
  I remember a story from 2024 where some tiny town (forget the name, East coast somewhere) had built a bunch of residential houses in a landslide area and the residents were frustrated that the government wasn't bailing them out. Had some wacky pictures. Maybe it was this one in California? I think it was a different one.
  It was 100 years ago, but Bayocean, Oregon a town with 2,000 residents slowly fell into the Pacific Ocean after they tried to mess with the coastline. The last remaining building fell into the ocean in 1971. No attempt to bail out the homeowners at any point.
  Disaster strikes, and the homeowners are extremely lucky if we bail them out. Usually we don't.
  
  It’s mostly going to be more than 50 years ago, but we did it a lot.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dams_and_reservoirs_in_the_United_States
According to Ben Shapiro, people will just sell their homes and move inland. 🤦 Never let Ben forget this fact.
- Aquaman is really into distressed property I hear.
- I feel really stupid in that I read that and thought, "I mean, that makes sense............ohhh wait no it doesn't."
  
  Congrats, you have exhibited more critical thinking than Ben has ever done in his entire life. Great start to the year for you :)
Yes.
Those towns can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Not your mama.
Hey remember hurricane Katrina?
Remember how people said that they should have fixed the wall cause they were warned?
I got a feeling that cons are just gonna tell Floridans that they should have moved beforehand.
- Sell them to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman!?
  
  I’m so glad I found this quote here. Was also thinking of it
No, they are gonna take proper care of them like in Flint, MI.
That's not an opinion, that's a question
Lmao. New to the US?
Yes, and thus shall begin the mass migrations of homeless, hungry and desperate people with nothing to lose.
- Unsurprising that this is such a trope of near-future science fiction.
  
  Not near-future science fiction alone, every time of sci-fi but the true far-future science fiction seems to be able to discuss this (if we take near-future to mean within decades), think for example of 2312 or the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.
- It began years ago, haven't you heard of the migrants caravans from south/middle americas?
  
  That's nothing compared to the population of all the coastal cities.
When amoc or Thwaites collapses it isn’t like we are going to have a choice. (The choice has already been made by not radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions)
Technically some houses can be moved or stilted, but they need a place to move them to. The government subsidizes flood insurance and they'll keep paying over and over again instead of just making people move somewhere else.
There’s only one thing to do…
BOMB THE OCEAN INTO SUBMISSION!
It will regret the day it messed with FREEDOM!
Please ocean, stop taking our towns /s
That won’t happen though because global warming is a myth, and the earth is 6K years old and static.
Wait, why is my house floating away? Why didn’t anyone warn us?!
They'll probably bail out Houston; unfortunately
- s/bail out/bale out/
Only for the millionaires settlements. All the rest can pay for themselves.
- Yeah, the rich will make sure their real estate losses are taken on by society and many will literally profit when one of their homes fall into the sea.
  This unfortunately is not a case with much high quality schadenfreude since yet again the rich have made stupid selfish choices and will refuse to face the consequences.
Yes.
We'll simply so what every other human has done when faced with crisis or climate change. We'll move and adapt, some will die, some will live. It will suck, and it's sucked before, but we'll survive, perhaps even thrive.
Comments I've gathered on lemmy:
"I'd rather just die."
"I'll kill myself before I have to suffer."
"Stop having kids you're condemning to eternal torment."
OK, you've failed at evolution. Nothing wrong with that! But the better adapted will live on, as always.
Lemmy: FUCK YOU!
Weird seeing an entire generation just say, "Fuck it. I'll lie down and die. The capitalists and billionaires killed me."