Fleeing climate change
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Climate Change and the Impact of Sea Level Rise
In many parts of the world this crisis is happening now. It's not some scary idea for the medium future. I think we need to realize that sea level rise will literally re-roll the maps of the world, and that of course, course and delta's are typically the areas where most people live. We recount that about half of the population depends directly on subsistence agriculture for its primary livelihood. So as of now, we already observe massive migration flows from rural regions to cities because people have lost their livelihood as a result of climate variations. And then finally, there is of course sea level rise, a creeping impact of climate change. It is clearly more slow and sad, but we really
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