Where are all the people displaced by rising seas to go?

[SheilaT]

25. I have no solution, other than to cynically

suggest they are supposed to drown in place. And which east coast state is it that has passed legislation forbidding any consideration of rising sea levels?

Some of the changes will be gradual, possibly gradual enough for a lot of reasonable adjustment. But there will be individual disasters that will be sudden enough to get everyone's attention. Keep in mind that for several decades now it's been pointed out that far too many people live along the hurricane-prone coastline of this country. And yet, our population continues to grow and every year more people move to those places. They rebuild after hurricanes. It's human nature to ignore some things and to rebuild after disaster.

The climate change that we're all faced with is going to be of a much different scale.

I keep on wondering if there won't be a sudden terrible catastrophe if, for instance, the Gulf Stream were to fail. There's also reason to believe that warming, such as we're currently experiencing, could actually make things tip over and bring on an ice age rather suddenly. Lots of scary possibilities.