• CTHlurker [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Aren’t most of those islands literally at sea level? So that any rise in sea levels due to global warming will just make the whole island disappear?

    • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      a lot of them are volcanic so you can keep building higher up the hillside as the water rises. the sea’s not gonna rise 50m, and you can easily get that much height on the volcanic ones.

      until the island explodes of course

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        1 year ago

        Oh okay. I think I was thinking of the Maldives or similar types of completely flat islands. As far as I know, global warming isn’t making a catastrophic volcanic eruption more or less likely on those islands, so I guess their plans are slightly smarter than I first credited.