Forbes - Sea Level Rise Means The Ultimate Gentrification, Which Means Large-Scale Displacement
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For those who want to cling to a charade that science—which we generally trust to be right when we're suspended in mid-air in a plane, preserving food in a refrigerator, or depend on a cell phone to transmit a call in an emergency—hasn't come to solid conclusions, the report has a statement: "Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are the only factors that can account for the observed warming over the last century; there are no credible alternative human or natural explanations supported by the observational evidence."
But how does this connect with income and wealth inequality? You need only look at the projected sea level rise on the coasts to start. In the worst scenario, and you can't assume that is impossible, the average high tide would be like current concepts of a once-in-a-century flood. Every day. There are 49.4 million housing units in shoreline counties. Right now, there are homes becoming unsellable in areas like Atlantic City, New Jersey and Norfolk, Virginia because of all the flooding.
Metropolitan areas on both coasts will need major changes in infrastructure design to survive. "However, the potential need for millions of people and billions of dollars of coastal infrastructure to be relocated in the future creates challenging legal, financial, and equity issues that have not yet been addressed," the report read. Even without the worst-case scenario, an estimated 13.1 million people will migrate from the coasts by 2100.
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Although not part of the report, it seems reasonable to project that people with money, and many on the coasts have money, will push people out when they move. We've seen time and again. It will be gentrification on a scale never before seen. And where will the monetarily displaced go? For that matter, as disruption in the food supply happens, who will have first dibs on eating? Again, those with money. Homelessness and hunger aren't new to this country, no matter how hard the average person tries not to look. They will get far worse and those with low- and moderate-incomes will be at greatest risk.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2018/11/24/when-the-seas-flood-the-coasts-expect-the-biggest-gentrification-wave-ever/#40746a0afc5a
