LA is the worst city I’ve ever been to, it’s just endless miles of paradise paved over. It’s a city sacrificed to the automobile.

I tried taking the bus while I was there and it was almost funny how hostile the transit system is. One stop was literally in the middle of a freeway that was only accessable by taking a set of stairs off the overpass. The entire time you’re waiting for the bus you’re trapped in a concrete cave that amplifies the already loud freeway noise, it’s horrible

You know that trope of a little kid that follows a theme park mascot and then sees them take their helmet off to see it’s really some sweaty middle aged dude with a mustache in there? That’s what going to LA is like, all the romantic glitter and glamour of “Hollywood” dissolves and you just see this smoggy, dingy reality underneath it.

I’ve visited once and wasn’t there long enough to develop a sincere and true hate, but I was astonished by its geology and climate. While I was there I tried to contemplate what it was like before the settlers came. Just imagine standing at the tops of those hills with the basin stretching out beneath you. That scene is intoxicating to me even now, years later. And I know that same feeling is one of the reasons it’s not that way today.

Just a big pile of wasted names from La Ciudad de Nuestra Dama la Reina de Los Angeles to Rancho Cucamonga

I haven’t been to LA, but I hate SF for the same reason. Is LA even worse?

Mmmm whatcha saaaay

Alright folks, allow me to quarter back this. We do communism. Then we cut off pieces of Florida and use it to build up Cuba in one of the largest terraforming projects ever known to humanity. We literally erase Florida from the map and build strong foundations for Cuban society.

no that long ago i checked the most aggressive simulation (the one you posted just on a different website) and discovered that my shitty little property will be within walking distance of a future beach

so uhhh small victories i guess?

Most of England disappears while Wales and Scotland get off lightly, lets gooooo

Haha get fucked Netherlands

“Sir, Davy Jones is here. He says he needs to start measuring the Oval Office for curtains”

Oof sorry in advance this got longer than intended…

I know there are plenty of other case studies of post-disaster predation by capital, but Fort Myers Beach, FL comes to mind. Hurricanes Ian and Milton destroyed the long-standing businesses and the communities (typically mobile/RV park style set-ups) where the employees lived. Those areas were bought up by investors to build new hotels, surface lots, etc, so then wealthier people move to the coastal-adjacent but protected areas (typically destroying coastal marsh in the process), and poorer people are relegated to urban “affordable” housing (typically destroying inland/brackish marsh in the process) with long commutes to locations where they could previously set up trailers (as its often seasonal labor).

So now there’s a few concentric “rings” of threats/risk. Beachfront - risk is mitigated by developers having new properties built at higher elevations (subsidized), leaving the first levels for parking, and through dredging/expansion of beaches (subsidized, with the caveat of providing whatever dogshit transit they will for public access). Generally a losing battle to squeeze out money while they can. Land is subsiding, sea level is rising, and storms are growing in intensity. The biggest risk is to the indigent labor who are less agile in their ability to evacuate/not work during a hurricane.

Interior to that - wealthier people move to the coastal-adjacent but protected areas. These are at less risk from storm surge for now, but land subsidence and sea level rise mean it will be a bigger threat down the road. Additionally, storms produce increased precipitation, and as these sites are former coastal wetlands, they lack the topography to drain at a rate preventative of flooding (disregarding that they were never meant to drain in the first place). So these suburbs receive pumps, etc (subsidized), and emergency response when needed (provided by the working class). The biggest risk here is the loss of wetlands preventing further land loss and mitigating surge, and of course to wildlife like the endangered panther.

Finally, poorer people are relegated to urban “affordable” housing, which faces similar threats of increased precipitation and inadequate drainage, but with the increased difficulty of evacuation (especially since most have to work until the last minute) if it’s even a possibility. More than likely these will be inadequately built and maintained and will produce mold, structural hazards, etc. These are also typically a long ways from the areas of work, and have inadequate transportation.

Similar responses are/will happen for wildfire re-development (LA, CA), riverine flooding (Fargo, ND), land erosion (MA coast), etc. Minimize disruption to the wealthy landowners, maximize profits to speculators, and pass the costs and risks to the workers.

Just my two cents

At what point is it just gonna be cheaper to take all the fucking buildings and push them somewhere else

there is not going to be any of that in the US. US climate policy is literally to ignore it

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