People will still be here, but they will not be living in what are now coastal areas - where most of them now live. This is not Science Fiction, this is a fact.
They should be planning now for this eventual move. But they cannot even imagine it happening. At some point, it will dawn on them, that this move is being forced on them - and they will have to make huge adjustments in their entire economy.
For the purposes of this essay, I will think of time in 10 year increments, beginning in 2020.
Right now, people don't have to do anything, because this change will not happen in their lifetime, of less than 100 years. 100 years later, will be about 2120. Sometime in this 100 year period, the facts will begin to become obvious. Fifty years later will be about 2070, when people will begin to wake up.
Most of the people now living will be dead and gone - but some of the youngest will still be around, and wondering why their elders were so stupid. Some of them will move to areas that will be safe from the rising oceans.
The East Coast will be the hardest hit, with Florida, Washington DC, New York City, and Boston gone completely! I cannot imagine how people will cope with this - but they will cope, somehow!
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