Droughts are pretty easy, you can do it right now if you stop trying to maximize evaporation and start doing something reasonable like drip irrigation.
Flooding is a bit different in that I assume we’re speaking about the Greenland glaciers and some of Antractica melting. You can either prevent them from melting or just build high walls around particularly valuable pieces of real estate. Shorelines are never stable, anyway—continental plates rise and sink, estuaries silt up, hurricanes rearrange barrier islands, etc.
The problem with flooding is not the average year. It’s the year where you get a tornado that you haven’t accurately predicted beforehand and that wrecks your defenses. Your dams break and then you lose a lot.
Droughts, famines, flooding, etc.
I seriously expect 4 degrees Celsius warming by 2200, if not 2100.
Do you believe that by 2200 the level of human technology will be inadequate to deal with the droughts and flooding?
What would ‘adequate’ technology to ‘deal with’ those look like?
Droughts are pretty easy, you can do it right now if you stop trying to maximize evaporation and start doing something reasonable like drip irrigation.
Flooding is a bit different in that I assume we’re speaking about the Greenland glaciers and some of Antractica melting. You can either prevent them from melting or just build high walls around particularly valuable pieces of real estate. Shorelines are never stable, anyway—continental plates rise and sink, estuaries silt up, hurricanes rearrange barrier islands, etc.
The problem with flooding is not the average year. It’s the year where you get a tornado that you haven’t accurately predicted beforehand and that wrecks your defenses. Your dams break and then you lose a lot.