People keep building on the banks of the Mississippi river and nearby floodplain and it has been overflowing its banks almost every 10 years now for the past 40.
I was watching a Weather Channel special and some farming family had been flooded out three times and bailed out by the federal/state government three times.
Even after major inevitable climate change disasters happen many folk will keep trying to build back if no one stops them. Governments around the world are enabling this, look at the floods in Pakistan. Pakistan allowed 1000's of towns and even small cities to be built in areas that were only habitable because of massive dam projects; however, once those dams reached critical levels there were zero plans for the consequences.
anybody remember the huge seawalls in Bladerunner 2049? we're never building that shit
love it when my dystopian sci-fi isn't pessimistic enough
lol the US can't even maintain actually existing roads and bridges. There's no chance of building some modern massive sea wall in dozens of population centers around the US.
what if enormous kaiju started coming through an interdimensional breach under the ocean
that's a problem that can maybe be handled by giving money to defense contractors, why build wall when you can waste military hardware
Apparently SpaceX was involved in the failed moon lander launch yesterday.
It was a moon orbiting capsule, not a lander. It was scrubbed (a very common occurrence for spacecraft) due to an engine temperature anomaly, not failed, and I think it was pretty much entirely SpaceX's rivals in the ULA et al, who, to be fair, are just as bad in a slightly different direction. I'm not aware of any major SpaceX equipment being used on Artemis.
SpaceX can't even get its moon rocket into space yet. Which is gonna be an issue soon since the NASA lander is supposed to be a moon-variant of Starship
Not much ever happens regarding space anything without some billionaire getting richer.
Not much in the west. China has a space program though and its really going places. they just launched their own space station and space telescope.
i think they might do it on the chesapeake and possibly new york harbor but literally nowhere else despite extremely amenable existing geography
just casually having the longest protected coastlines in the world and abandoning them for worship of the dollar
Individuals claiming disbelief and sorrow, and then everyone else ignoring them until climate change hits them personally.
Basically the same stuff that’s been happening with Kentucky, and the fires in the Northwest, and Katrina.
yeah, americans are quite literally not capable of 'doing' anything.
This is already beginning with home insurance companies pulling out of Florida. Buildings will start to be abandoned, only the poor will live there, and eventually no one will as the water level rises and roads become impassable.
only the poor will live there, and eventually no one will as the water level rises and roads become impassable
Someone has never read the Akira Manga
If homosexuals caused Katrina, I can only imagine what the drag queens will be responsible for.
Models?!
They already bought the houses!
They plan on extracting rent past the collapse of America.
yea im kinda surprised we dont
but for now i got u
H :bomb:
https://i.imgur.com/S8HAn7b.png
I hastily threw this together if you want to submit it or someone wants to improve upon the idea. Taken from this tweet.
I have no real evidence, credentials, or any meaningful gravitas to back me up here but personally my guess is that Miami could be 95% underwater and people will just ignore it and build new god awful car centric suburbs 2 miles inland while denying there's even a problem
average phoenix resident in 2034 suggesting to build a pipeline to the Hudson river for more water
[They're still growing alfalfa for export to Saudi Arabia]
im so fucking here for mad max chuds resurrecting NAWAPA (ive always been for it because marvelling alien archaeologists is cool :posad: )
People will flee from the coastal states and the rest of the country will brand these people "refugees" or simply paint them as "homeless" as the hate for that is already in place.
Apparently zombie icebergs off of Greenland are set to raise sea levels by 10 inches really soon so I guess we will find out.
just like with the oregon wildfires everyone will label the refugees, many of which will be driving RVs and other symbols of their former status, as just "meth/drug-of-choice addicted coastal poor people". the worst thing is that the bourgeois will have mostly long fled the coasts leaving most just regular people and petty-bougie. my town will basically be a beachside town by that point. i'll let my meagre property become a commune. and house as many as possible, chuds excluded. we'll probably have to organize a people's militia
