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This doesn't make sense. Both land sinking and water rising contribute together to 11mm/y ground level going closer to sea level. And the sinking has >2x effect.

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Isn't land sinking something to address locally where it happens, compared to water rising which we're gonna need some sort of global solution for, as it's not just because of one country? If so, one would seem more difficult than the other.

Also, in some places land is actually rising.

Problem is the sinking isn't really something you can address in this particular case. It's a river delta that is compressing itself. But it's not only this, its land loss due to oil and natural gas practices, oh and its rising sea levels too.

Tl;dr they are screwed.

> This doesn't make sense

It doesn’t make sense if you think that water incursion has the same solution space as sinking land

It doesn’t make sense if you think New Orleans is the only city with this problem

So of course, it doesn’t make sense, if you’re unaligned from reality.

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