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The highest point of the maldives is 7ft above sea level. They are migrating en masse to neighboring countries. Bangladesh, similarly, is a very low lying nati
by ridicter 5y ago
The highest point of the maldives is 7ft above sea level. They are migrating en masse to neighboring countries.
Bangladesh, similarly, is a very low lying nation without the capital to build seawalls and other protections (as the Netherlands can).
- flavius29663 5y agoso far the coral atols are growing in tandem with the sea level, so sea level rise cannot be the reason for people there leaving. https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/how-to-face-a-rising-sea-maldives-bets-on-artificial-islands-76501 https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/how-to-fa...
- monocasa 5y agoThe existing infrastructure doesn't grow higher, and the increased climate variability means much more floods.
- flavius29663 5y agoinfrastructure doesn't grow higher, but the islands grow larger, so existing infrastructure shouldn't have that much risk
- monocasa 5y agoThat's not how sea levels work.
- yorwba 5y agoBangladesh had a GDP per capita of $1855 in 2019, higher than the Netherlands' $1835 in 1966 (measured in current US dollars) https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=NL-BD https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location... Naively using GDP per capita as a measure of the average level of technology people can afford, this suggests that Bangladesh should be able to employ land reclamation measures similar to the Netherlands in the 1960s, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevopolder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevopolder There might be other considerations (such as differing geography) that make this impracticable, however.
- blueblisters 5y agoI suspect the Maldives are going to be doing a lot more dredging in the next few years.
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