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jl6 ◴[] No.45100453[source]
> As today’s world faces rising sea levels driven by climate change, the researchers hope to shed light on how Stone Age societies adapted to shifting coastlines more than eight millennia ago.

Unfortunately I don't expect there is any particularly reusable solution to be uncovered. Ancient peoples facing rising tides almost certainly just walked a bit inland and built new huts there. They probably thought nothing of it. They were a far more physically mobile culture, without great dependence on immense, immovable infrastructure - nor on rigid land ownership rules.

Our culture's migration will be entirely different.

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skeezyboy ◴[] No.45101527[source]
> Our culture's migration will be entirely different.

yeah, weve got even better technology, itll be even less of a hassle

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johndunne ◴[] No.45102054[source]
I’m not sure the people who own property next to ‘at risk’ coastlines will agree. As a whole, society may continue but there’s a lot of people at risk of losing their property as a result of rising sea levels. Probably decades from now.
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1. skeezyboy ◴[] No.45102940[source]
Its certainly not existential. If anything itll probably spur some kind of new invention wed be glad to have (think WW2 and fertilizer)