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 I didn’t say you did. You live with an expert - pose these questions to that expert who has seeded your mind with these ideas that you’re repeating even though you can’t steelman the counterarguments.

Another question to ask is if our coastlines are so susceptible, why are our parasitic elite buying coastal property hand over fist? The experts know we’re going to lose this coastline but Obama and Oprah and Zuck and et al what, they forgot? They ignored it? Why did they buy oceanfront property at high prices if the experts know it’s just going to get washed away? What is “the expert’s opinion” on this?

Are we worried about drinking water? Even though we have the tech to turn sea water into potable water and guess what, it’s done using ‘fossil fuels’ and works fine. 

I live in an island continent here in Aus - beachfront commands a massive premium despite our housing Ponzi. Are they all gonna lose everything?

Why are there so many questions you can’t answer but the climate change expert you live with is so right? Have you considered this question?