yes millions living along coast lines communities will be displaced. Lots of land inland on many coastal nations. We need to incentivize folks to move inland and maybe just visit coastal areas but not live there. Lot's of land in the interior at land prices and house prices much more reasonable than along coastal communities. But to make this happen our industries need to move there as well. NY, Boston, Baltimore, Floridians, coastal southern states....move inland. or learn how to tread water for long periods of time.
Bravo Saint Lucia. Thank you Emily. Yes if we all increased vegetation and soils by 2%, retain more water in our communities to increase photosynthesis and cool oceans, St Lucia would suffer less in the future. Olympics notorarity will bring more tourists, gentrification and the destruction of mangroves. Not only to provide more views and beaches, A big environmental hazard is the removal of mangroves to widen, speedup roads. This is less expensive than cutting into the mountainside. But at what expense in terms of ocean nurseries and standing up to stronger storms. More mangroves for Saint Lucia, right now!
"the future of Saint Lucia is highly threatened by climate change—and the country can’t do much about it on its own"
Really liked you stating this and I think it is underdiscussed as an issue. The fact there are small countries, usually with less than a million people, who face outsized dangers from climate change compared to their role in causing or solving it, is such an unfair aspect of all this. Just another thing that angers me.
There are no solutions, all the institutions have failed. The good news is we know how to fix things, the bad news is the extractive industries couldn’t care less as they buy politicians like we change stocks.
yes millions living along coast lines communities will be displaced. Lots of land inland on many coastal nations. We need to incentivize folks to move inland and maybe just visit coastal areas but not live there. Lot's of land in the interior at land prices and house prices much more reasonable than along coastal communities. But to make this happen our industries need to move there as well. NY, Boston, Baltimore, Floridians, coastal southern states....move inland. or learn how to tread water for long periods of time.
Where are the citizens of island nations going to move? Especially given the irrational hostility to migrants now?
Excellent piece. Thanks.
Bravo Saint Lucia. Thank you Emily. Yes if we all increased vegetation and soils by 2%, retain more water in our communities to increase photosynthesis and cool oceans, St Lucia would suffer less in the future. Olympics notorarity will bring more tourists, gentrification and the destruction of mangroves. Not only to provide more views and beaches, A big environmental hazard is the removal of mangroves to widen, speedup roads. This is less expensive than cutting into the mountainside. But at what expense in terms of ocean nurseries and standing up to stronger storms. More mangroves for Saint Lucia, right now!
Awesome article
"the future of Saint Lucia is highly threatened by climate change—and the country can’t do much about it on its own"
Really liked you stating this and I think it is underdiscussed as an issue. The fact there are small countries, usually with less than a million people, who face outsized dangers from climate change compared to their role in causing or solving it, is such an unfair aspect of all this. Just another thing that angers me.
There are no solutions, all the institutions have failed. The good news is we know how to fix things, the bad news is the extractive industries couldn’t care less as they buy politicians like we change stocks.