The Netherlands in 2100, when all the ice has melted:
(I'm sorry, my friends. You're welcome to come to Germany, if you promise to bring your superior bike infrastructure.)
51 1 ReplyKnowing the Dutch, it's more likely that we'd see a Netherlands-shaped island in the ocean, next to where Germany used to be 😋
16 0 ReplyWeed is legal now, bring your greenhouses too
3 0 ReplyNah, there will be a enormous glass dome with a few super terps where Friesland used to be.
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32 0 Reply“God made the world but the Dutch made Holland”
17 0 ReplyNormal people: the sea is nice.
Dutch people: it's free real estate!
16 0 ReplyHardly free, these were very expensive projects both in financial terms as well as human cost.
18 0 ReplyIt's a meme, don't take it literally
6 1 ReplyHow safe is it?
Like, if war were suddenly to break out could 10% of the country be flooded with a few torpedoes?
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A much more effective war against Neptune
6 0 ReplyDid they conquer those areas from other kingdoms or were those previously flooded and they dammed them?
5 1 ReplyThey defeated Poseidon and took what was once his.
25 0 ReplyBuilt dikes and pumped out the water.
12 0 ReplyThe second. The Netherlands is like the worlds capital for land reclamation.
10 0 ReplyThe sea level was higher in 1300, so it's a combination of a retreating sea and reclaiming land.
2 2 ReplySee, that would be contrary to my expectation, because hotter Earth = higher sea level, at least until all ice is melted.
So, I looked it up and that also seems to be the case for the Netherlands. In fact, their land levels are even falling, too, because they lost a lot of peat over the centuries:
Source: https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2023/04/23/land-subsidence-in-the-netherlands/
(Not the greatest source, but seems to match up with everything else I found.)8 0 Reply