<story><title>Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-29/miami-s-other-water-problem</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fabricexpert</author><text>This article is kind of infuriating. Just bring the facts up and talk about them, instead of describing people. I think this is one of the more critical parts (along with the stuff about water supply getting contaminated):&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Barring a stupendous reversal in greenhouse gas emissions, the rising Atlantic will cover much of Miami by the end of this century. The economic effects will be devastating: Zillow Inc. estimates that six feet of sea-level rise would put a quarter of Miami’s homes underwater.&lt;p&gt;However, nowhere in the article does it say a six feet rise will happen at the end of the century. So is that actually going to happen? How many models project this and how many don&amp;#x27;t? What is the &amp;quot;stupendous reversal&amp;quot; required in real terms? What are the options to combat this? Would a giant sea wall work?&lt;p&gt;If you come at this from the angle of &amp;quot;climate change is a myth&amp;quot; the entire article reads as fluff. This makes it basically impossible to convince people that this is a real issue that needs to be dealt with. The sensationalist title distances people from the issue even further (it is sensational because the article doesn&amp;#x27;t present any evidence that Miami will be underwater soon).</text></comment>
<story><title>Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-29/miami-s-other-water-problem</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chollida1</author><text>Start worrying when the banks stop offering mortgages to people trying to buy property in south beach.&lt;p&gt;I remember when Katrina flooded New Orleans, lots of people were asking why rebuild the city when it almost certainly will flood like that again. And the answer was a simple, do you know how much it would cost to relocate everyone?&lt;p&gt;What does it do to the economy when almost everyones largest asset(their house) is worth effectively zero and people still have 20 years on their mortgage.&lt;p&gt;In my old city (Calgary, Canada) we had a pretty bad flood in 2013.  The government made, what I thought was a smart, deal with the home owners.&lt;p&gt;They would get some government assistence with the condition that this was the first and only time that the governmnet would help.&lt;p&gt;Some owners rebuilt, others just bulldozed their homes.  Now everyone knows where they stand, the government helped shoulder the initial burden and the people who moved helped lower the number of people living in a flood plain.</text></comment>