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Wonder at what tipping point people will start concluding places like New Orleans are not worth the trouble and start abandoning it. Is there a list of cities in order of likely abandonment/depopulation in the face of increasing extreme weather?
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Phoenix and Las Vegas seem like they’ll become the 21st century of the rust belt, becoming the “desert belt” as people flee en masse in coming decades as the summer months become that more uncomfortable. So not abandoned, but decline.
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would they abandon it completely? or would it migrate? maybe people will set up shop fifty miles inland, where they can still visit the city easily, and overtime new new orleans will attract things from old new orleans
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Don't know how common this is but I vaguely remember being on geology field trip in college in IL somewhere where there had been several devastating floods. I think the Army Corps of Engineers made recommendations to a gov't entity that then bought up land and forbade rebuilding.