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posted by janrinok on Sunday November 27 2016, @08:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the run-away,-run-away! dept.

According to this article, Vancouver, Canada officials have put out a report that lays out options for dealing with sea level rise. Three generic strategies evaluated are: Adapt, Protect, or Retreat, the last of which means that for some parts of the city, people might just need to "get out of the way". In that case, the city would buy up homes and remove infrastructure over a period of several decades. It's not an easy thing to ask for people to leave their homes decades before an area is flooded.

By the year 2100, 13 square kilometers of Vancouver (containing around 4,000 households worth $7 billion) will be on floodplains so action needs to be taken soon to protect them. Areas like Jericho Beach and the Fraser River are already experiencing more frequent flooding.

First, Vancouver will publicize its plans then gauge public reaction. The world will be watching.


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday November 27 2016, @09:43PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday November 27 2016, @09:43PM (#433770) Homepage

    Hmm, modded troll. Okay, back to the drawing board -- there's been a lot of talk about Californian secessionism lately, but to just do it even if allowed is a puerile oversimplified assessment of the situation.

    As I said before, There exists a wide diversity of political belief within California. So, it secedes from the union, and now it's back to square one because it is now only a microcosm of the same situation it experienced while in the Union -- a divided population.

    But there is a magical solution that will work. Some have discussed dividing California into six states. But that is not necessary, dividing California into two will be good enough. How do we draw those borders? Easy. Start with the Northern horizontal border of Orange County. Then, from there, go 50 miles inland. Then, draw upward, mirroring the coast, until you reach the Oregon border. Not hard to do with existing mapping technology. You will be left with something long, coastal, and skinny; like Chile.

    Let that long skinny coastal strip harbor all the illegal immigrants, degenerate sodomites, beach bums, and anybody else who wants to take advantage of the goodwill of virtue-signallers with big property values living in tourist-traps. Let it be rich, and let its naive altruism cause it to collapse in on itself and eschew the very values on which it was founded. Then, when they come crawling back, we can label them "racists."

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @10:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @10:17PM (#433778)

    While I am sympathetic to the idea of divided political states if for no other reason than unmitigated gall and idiocy that seems to permeate the left anymore (it's like pure concentrated evil in ego form), this ultimately improves nothing, and just kicks the can further down the road until someone can leverage an advantage into lording over the great unwashed masses. Nearly every political persuasion gets too full of itself and decides to crash their ideology headlong into reality with catastrophic consequence. We don't live long enough to internalize the lessons of history.

    Nope, what really needs to be impressed upon is rule and be ruled, which is the real lesson of democracy, of maintaining a tenable peace even with those at the fringes for one day they too will rise to power.

    While having a singalong of Kumbaya isn't in the cards at the moment, being at least cordial to the overtures some on the left have made is good public policy and working towards whatever compromises can be made.

    That can start with you.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @10:29PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @10:29PM (#433783)

      OC is becoming Dem-converged. 51.4% voted Clitton. Screw them.

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday November 27 2016, @11:00PM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday November 27 2016, @11:00PM (#433798) Homepage

      It kicks the can further down the road for leftist idiots, who will ultimately turn inward and eat each other.
      The libertarian self-sufficient have already demonstrated they can live on their own, even if they have to fish from streams to eat.

  • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Sunday November 27 2016, @11:01PM

    by Whoever (4524) on Sunday November 27 2016, @11:01PM (#433800) Journal

    Let that long skinny coastal strip harbor all the illegal immigrants,

    You don't know much about California, do you? There are lots of Hispanics in the central valley (farming country). I don't think that it is a stretch to think that many of them are undocumented.

    Also, the suggestion of breaking CA into 5 states, that would leave the central valley as the poorest state in the nation. I can't image there is much enthusiasm in that part of CA to break into a separate state.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @11:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @11:03PM (#433801)

    You are just jealous of the wealth in CA, aren't you?

    You can't stand it that people who live in a liberal state make more money than you and don't have to live in a place with a terrible climate (as well as many other terrible things in your state).

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday November 27 2016, @11:23PM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday November 27 2016, @11:23PM (#433814) Homepage

      You fucking moron, I've lived here just about my entire life. I was born into a poor agricultural community,

      But Californians are retards, like you, who will attack themselves on the basis of petty issues.

      I don't care about wealth, just expatriation of dumb-shits...like you.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by Whoever on Monday November 28 2016, @01:08AM

        by Whoever (4524) on Monday November 28 2016, @01:08AM (#433853) Journal

        I don't believe you.

        You come here to spout your offensive vitriol. I don't know if it is genuine, or just an offensive troll.

        What I do know is that there is absolutely no reason to believe anything that you post. Nothing.

      • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday November 28 2016, @04:36PM

        by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday November 28 2016, @04:36PM (#434085) Journal

        ...I've lived here just about my entire life. I was born into a poor agricultural community, But Californians are retards...

        The self portrait of Ethanol-fueled.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:45AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:45AM (#434832)

        I've lived here just about my entire life.

        Bullshit. Complete Bullshit. You don't live in California.

        A quick look at your posting history shows that you post at times that simply are not credible for a California resident.

        You don't live in California. You live in flyover country. You are jealous of Californians.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @02:08PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @02:08PM (#434030)

      You can't stand it that people who live in a liberal state make more money than you and don't have to live in a place with a terrible climate

      While paying a far greater cost of living. Last time I ran the numbers it was clear that big California salary would be needed just to keep the standard of living that I already have while making considerably less.

      Also as far as weather goes at least I'm not alternating between landslides and massive wildfires on a regular basis while being 5 years into a megadrought.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @02:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @02:37AM (#433878)

    Ethanol-fueled wrote:

    degenerate sodomites

    Latent homosexual spotted!

    • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday November 28 2016, @07:55AM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday November 28 2016, @07:55AM (#433942) Journal

      To be fair, I'm pretty sure he's never had sex and never will (no, Eth, your hand doesn't count and neither does sitting on an empty beer bottle, speaking of "degenerate...").

      It's hard to tell what he believes, what's pure trollery, and what's some combination of both, and in what proportion. He's certainly got a way with words though.

      --
      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...