• EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    The poster who posted this is not very smart and is just pushing outrage, like they always do.

    Read the graphic. The light blue is 5m (over 16 feet) and the other blue is 10m (over 32 feet). The estimate rise is about 2 feet in 2100. So not even the first area.

    I hate to downplay the threat of climate change, because it is the biggest existential risk we’ve ever faced, but people like the OP do a disservice to the risk by posting these intentionally misleading graphics. And pushing things like “omg you have to be dumb to buy a place in Florida” (at least based on this graphic) is something that will likely backfire too.

    It’s the same dumb shit that conservatives use to claim that it isn’t an issue because rich people are buying beach front property.