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smooth_remmyon Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

Taxing only the wealthiest americans could easily fund a UBI for everyone else. The middle class will not have to make any sacrifices

smooth_remmyon Where America's climate migrants will go as sea level rises

Any ice below sea-level will melt into water that will take up exactly the same amount of space. So any ice below sea-level that melts will not cause sea levels to rise.

smooth_remmyon Where America's climate migrants will go as sea level rises

> This glacier alone will cause a global sea level rise of three feet.

Where did you get that information? This source from Wikipedia says it would cause a rise of 4 inches:

At the beginning of 2020, researchers from the ITGC took measurements to develop scenarios for the future of the glacier and to predict the time frame for a possible collapse: The erosion of the glacier by warmed ocean water seems to be stronger than expected. The researchers noted with concern, that at the baseline of the glacier, the temperature of the water is already more than two degrees above freezing point. They confirm thawing of the Thwaites glacier contributes about four percent of global sea-level rise. The collapse of this glacier alone would raise the sea level by about 65 centimetres (25 inches).[25]