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- Lincolnshire
Well, if seas are going up 15m, I can sell them 300ac of land that's 16m above do they can feel at home.
Send them to the Netherlands?... There'll be a lot of refugees from London and Hull too.
Odd, I have two friends - even here in rural West Wales - who moved here from the Netherlands in the last decade and, through them, I've met other Dutch people over here, there is in fact a Dutch 'community' over here.I never heard of any fellow dutchman that they contemplate moving your way. Just so you know.
If anything, whenever I think we have it bad I go to this forum and set my mind at ease.
Also, it is kinda ironic you guys seem to have more problems with water than we do...
Might turn to a blessing in disguise.If the Dutch manage to build bigger, better, higher dams, there will be more water available to back up the Thames estuary!
Send them to the Netherlands?
Joking apart, where will the Dutch etc. go? It is going to be a big problem and, despite its being unavoidable, nobody in government here or over in Europe seems to be recognising the fact, let alone planning for it...
Fisheries will enlarge / improve with global warming, so will currently impassable arctic trade routes, these things will make a big difference to economies. Climate change will also see higher land become more viable, be it for grass or crops, but it's hard to quantify it well.
Odd, I have two friends - even here in rural West Wales - who moved here from the Netherlands in the last decade and, through them, I've met other Dutch people over here, there is in fact a Dutch 'community' over here.
When I worked in London there were loads of Dutch there, nearly as many as the French! And I have friends in the Netherlands who feel closer to the UK than to their neighbours in Europe, some of whom are keen supporters of the EU; perhaps it's all down to the circles we move in...
But that aside, I'll be interested to know whether you think your country really can keep defeating the sea forever and, if not, where will the people go? Your engineering has been remarkable, but I'm minded of King pansy. (The bloody stupid auto-censor has changed the name of an historical king to 'Pansy'... I wrote C N U T)
pansy - link below - got p!ssed off with sycophants saying how great he was, so he went down to the seashore and ordered the tide not to come in... which of course it did anyway. His point being that anyone thinking that someone was all-powerful was wrong, and trying to defeat nature (and 'God' back then) was futile.I am quite curious who you mean by king cünt, the expensive people who that makes Holland a monarchy?
I was just pulling your leg, I am far to dull to know anyone who wants to move anyway.
I'll find something else to do, by the time news breaks out we are doomed. We survived acid rain, burping cows and all kinds of stuff that would surely be the last nail in the coffin. Odds are when push comes to shove it'll be a big fat nothingburger.
Fair enough; fortunately you Dutch are pretty tall, but it's good to see that you're giving the younger generation emergency training, just in case...I think I worded it wrong, I don't mean we are doomed anyway, but that by the time news breaks out we can not hold the tide, literally, I'll find another source of income.
But no, not that bothered about it. I live in the danger zone, but having a nice big retention area near me, the polders of Flevoland, should give me some time to escape.
They are practically all floating strictly speaking, much as they are in the fens. How many would actually rise with the water table is questionable.The Dutch are very good at building floating houses.
Their engineering has been remarkable so far. But, to get your head around the problem properly, you need to look at the rise in sea level over, say, the past hundred years, and realistic estimates for the future.The Dutch have kept the sea back well enough so far. They will manage in future.
Suid Afrika! Escaping the North Sea for them to be up to their necks in hot water, no, they ain't stupid.Perhaps Süd Afrika could do with a few more Afrikaaners? Would they let them in though!?