• Sylver@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s honestly horrifying to see the lack of reaction around the world. If you live anywhere near the coast, you better get the fuck out or tell your kids to.

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        1 year ago

        I’m already telling people to get out of Florida*. I expect multiple Katrina-level events over the next 15 years. “Florida refugees” is going to become a common phrase.

        Orlando might be more likely to survive than Miami or Tampa, but do you really want to be in the city surrounded by devastation?

        We, as humans, seem to have lost the ability to plan more than 20 years into the future. Florida is still building in areas that are going to be crushed, and the only reaction is from insurance companies.

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          1 year ago

          If that massive icesheet in Antarctica gives way, Florida will be under water.

          At the rate we’re going, I think it will take a cataclysm of that level before people will realize how important this thing is.

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          1 year ago

          Man I have like 5 family members and friends just move to Florida. They were tired of the high taxes and politics of California. At least they won’t burn in a wildfire though!

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            1 year ago

            I wonder if FL is attracting a certain type of moths to a flame… recently had a neighbor move to clearwater

      • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        It’s nice by the coast though, I’d just put aquatic pilings under my house and have a ruggedised shelter built into it. Even if I live to a hundred and fifty with all the ice melted my land will still be under less water than the intercoastal platforms we’ve been routinely building since world war one.