The Netherlands in 1300 vs 1900-2000
The Netherlands in 1300 vs 1900-2000
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The Netherlands in 2100, when all the ice has melted:
(I'm sorry, my friends. You're welcome to come to Germany, if you promise to bring your superior bike infrastructure.)
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Knowing the Dutch, it's more likely that we'd see a Netherlands-shaped island in the ocean, next to where Germany used to be π
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Weed is legal now, bring your greenhouses too
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Nah, there will be a enormous glass dome with a few super terps where Friesland used to be.
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βGod made the world but the Dutch made Hollandβ
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Normal people: the sea is nice.
Dutch people: it's free real estate!
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In 1573 the Spanish navy besieged the lakes and rivers around Haarlem, eventually routing the Dutch independence movement in a prolonged sea battle.
Today it's the location of Schilpol airport.
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A much more effective war against Neptune
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Did they conquer those areas from other kingdoms or were those previously flooded and they dammed them?
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They defeated Poseidon and took what was once his.
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Built dikes and pumped out the water.
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The second. The Netherlands is like the worlds capital for land reclamation.
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The sea level was higher in 1300, so it's a combination of a retreating sea and reclaiming land.
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See, that would be contrary to my expectation, because hotter Earth = higher sea level, at least until all ice is melted.
So, I looked it up and that also seems to be the case for the Netherlands. In fact, their land levels are even falling, too, because they lost a lot of peat over the centuries:
Source: https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2023/04/23/land-subsidence-in-the-netherlands/
(Not the greatest source, but seems to match up with everything else I found.)
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