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Letting Venice go is also an option. Going to happen to a lot of low lying geographies as sea levels rise and mitigation becomes unaffordable. Hard decisions ahead about what’s worth saving.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180703190745.h... (“Rising sea levels could cost the world $14 trillion a year by 2100”)

For comparison, the EU’s budget is around €150B/year.

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The EU's budget is only a tiny part of public spending of the EU's member states, though, as they each handle their own military, welfare, etc. spending individually. It's more like DC's budget than the US Federal budget in magnitude/importance.

That’s a fair point. Looking at the EU as a whole, I would argue it doesn’t have the resources to spend on enormous climate mitigation capital projects consistently with most of its countries dependent on a handful of economic engines (primarily France and Germany with the UK leaving), compounded by a rapidly aging workforce turning into pensioners who will be competing against those capital projects for fiscal support.

EU Contributors and Beneficiaries 2018

https://www.statista.com/chart/18794/net-contributors-to-eu-...

"Humans Can Survive Underwater

Alarming media stories that twist the facts about rising sea levels are dangerous because they scare people unnecessarily and push policymakers toward excessively expensive measures to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The real solution is to lift the world’s poorest out of poverty and protect them with simple infrastructure."

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rising-sea-leve...

Archived:

http://archive.is/smovR

Please. Every 20 years the predictions that ocean levels are going to rise by x feet happen and decades later they haven't moved anywhere close.

Haven't seen that. Can you link some of those predictions?

[Citation needed]?

Not backing up the parent skeptic comment, but here is a source I found for sea level rise:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warmin...

Looks like some real actual rise to me:

https://www.globalchange.gov/browse/indicators/global-sea-le...

No, sea levels have risen as predicted; see for example https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2017/09/13/modern-day-sea-...

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