Delaware in 2068
DELAWARE in 2068, like large portions of the lowland east coast, is a soggy economic ghetto populated by people who can’t afford to move to higher ground and who live in moldy, chronically flooded homes. Science fiction? Nope. It has already begun:
“The Great Migration was out of the south into the industrialized north, whereas this is from every coastal place in the US to every other place in the US,” said Hauer. “Not everyone can afford to move, so we could end up with trapped populations that would be in a downward spiral. I have a hard time imagining what that future would be like.”
So I shouldn’t buy a home beach side in Fenwick?
Buy in Felton and your grandchildren will have a beach house.
Found this. You can see what will be beach front per increase in sea level rise:
https://ss2.climatecentral.org/#10/38.6147/-75.6697?show=satellite&projections=0-K14_RCP85-SLR&level=4&unit=feet&pois=hide
Felton…still a fuck no
Looks like I’m good to about 6 feet.
Mayor Mike loves this because he’ll get to do another Riverfront when the current one is washed away.
21′ in 7,000 years. I’m going to go with this as the proven rate of sea level rise.
https://www.sciencealert.com/divers-locate-7-000-year-old-burial-site-hidden-underwater-florida-coast-native-american-manasota-key
Seventeen years ago during a speech at Coast day in Lewes I personally witnessed Tom Carper seriously claim that Coast Day will have to be held in Dover in “twenty years” because of sea level rise. I guess he technically still has three years left before he’s actually wrong.
You know, I’m thinking that if they could hold Coast Day in Dover for just one year and call it Coast Day Sea Level Rise Awareness Day, we could kill two birds with one stone.
Folks would have the opportunity to see what life will be like in the near future under man/Republican made climate change, and at the same time make Carper’s prediction realized…It’s a win,win.