Time to look for higher ground?

[DFW]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/12/13/thwaites-glacier-melt-antarctica/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert&wpmk=1&wpisrc=al_news__alert-hse--alert-national&pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJjb29raWVuYW1lIjoid3BfY3J0aWQiLCJpc3MiOiJDYXJ0YSIsImNvb2tpZXZhbHVlIjoiNTk2Y2RlY2NhZTdlOGE0NGU3ZmJjYjU2IiwidGFnIjoid3BfbmV3c19hbGVydF9yZXZlcmUiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vY2xpbWF0ZS1lbnZpcm9ubWVudC8yMDIxLzEyLzEzL3Rod2FpdGVzLWdsYWNpZXItbWVsdC1hbnRhcmN0aWNhLz91dG1fc291cmNlPWFsZXJ0JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPXdwX25ld3NfYWxlcnRfcmV2ZXJlJmxvY2F0aW9uPWFsZXJ0JndwbWs9MSZ3cGlzcmM9YWxfbmV3c19fYWxlcnQtaHNlLS1hbGVydC1uYXRpb25hbCJ9.qWbm7xCcoeMoaeXyzWakA_hUQaCmfs0uHm4xsJ4LqNo

I hope this is not behind a pay wall. If the worst case happens--and with Antarctic ice melting, I never count that out--and this scenario plays out, there will be some serious consequences in coastal areas in the next twenty years, maybe WAY sooner. Time NOT to be looking at waterfront property on Cape Cod. Or Charleston, SC. Or Florida. Or the Maldives. Or...just about anywhere you can sail a boat to these days. Water rising by several FEET?

[cbabe]

1. Salt water contamination making fertile land sterile.

As big or bigger threat than flooding. You can become a climate refugee and try to out run flooding, hurricanes, etc.

Can’t out run no food.

[DFW]

2. Oh, yeah, the amount of arable land and potable water would shrink drastically for sure

Plus: the overall salinity would probably drop, and the water temperature rise, completely disrupting the marine habitat of a huge amount of the world's food supply. I'm fairly confident the world's coastal nations do not have contingency plans to build desalinization plants on a moment's notice. Oddly enough, the only politician I have ever talked with about this who took it seriously and considered it so important that he was actually devoting some time to it was Bill Clinton and his CGI. I do NOT know to what extent they were pursuing it. This was 15 years ago.

[mahina]

3. Oh no