craiger_123 t1_j1gq1mf wrote
Let's pretend that the sea won't continue to rise. Ask Venice how their plan is going. They use a series of 5 gallon buckets and put two planks up. That way people can have two directions of travel. The shops have to fend for themselves with all the water damage. This has been going on for years and years.
qtx t1_j1hrvew wrote
On the flip side, ask the Dutch.
Brave-Examination-70 t1_j1iwcaz wrote
The Dutch have mostly stopped building seawalls and are instead restoring the natural barriers that would prevent this like wetlands and sandbars.
Tar_alcaran t1_j1ll3t4 wrote
As a Dutch person... what?
We just threw 2 billion euros at raising and strengthening the Afsluitdijk and installin some insanely huge pumps to make sure we can get rid of water from the IJsselmeer even in high-sealevel conditions. That's on top of the 1.2 billion were spending on the Delta Program every year to make sure we're beating climate change.
There are no sea-side wetlands to prevent flooding in the Netherlands (though were definitely doing that for our rivers. There are large sections of coast that have dunes, but that's not new, that's how they've always been. We DO do a lot of shoreline suppletion, which maintains the beaches and dunes, but that's not really a solution for many places.
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