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For South Florida, I foresee them injecting a compound which will fill in the porous limestone, therefore making seawalls viable, Along with raising the land the old fashioned way. Buildings that are ready to be torn down a hundred or fifty years from now, will add to the land that needs moved.
Miami is becoming a mega city while Atlanta continues to be a mega suburb.
Miami Beach may have only 100 years left in it but it's not going without a fight. The areas that are flooding are literally being raised and the city is learning from the Dutch how to combat sea level issues.
As someone who often walks from Miami Beach to Miami along a causeway and along the bay as exercise, I can tell you that Miami proper sits significantly higher than Miami Beach and has many more decades if not a century more before it faces the issues that Miami Beach is facing now.
With the sort of sea level rise that will wipe out Miami, many cities along the US coastline will be facing the same issues. It's not like the sea level rises only in Miami.
How so?Especially when Miami sprawls as much as Atlanta and continues to do so but Atlanta has slowed its sprawl significantly according to many sources.
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For South Florida, I foresee them injecting a compound which will fill in the porous limestone, therefore making seawalls viable, Along with raising the land the old fashioned way. Buildings that are ready to be torn down a hundred or fifty years from now, will add to the land that needs moved.
Is that even possible? To radically alter the geology of the land like that with a compound? If so, sounds like a tremendous undertaking, but whatever it takes I guess.
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Is that even possible? To radically alter the geology of the land like that with a compound? If so, sounds like a tremendous undertaking, but whatever it takes I guess.
It isn't, and even if it were, it's not a fix. Mother Nature generally wins these battles.
Both the cities will grow rapidly for the foreseeable feature Miami because of migration from Latin America and Atlanta because of internal migration. But my vote goes for Atlanta because of it's diverse economy and it's role as a transportation hub..
Atlanta also has international migration, so Atlanta will get there first.
Atlanta is growing faster than the Miami area again. Miami had a few years where it was growing faster at the beginning of the decade, but since Atlanta's economy has fully recovered, its growth continues to accelerate while Miami has sort of fallen off a bit.
Atlanta's economy is much more well rounded and gets a lot of high paying jobs and that'll help it continue to grow faster in the foreseeable future. Both have solid annual job growth numbers currently, but I'm sure Atlanta's gets a higher proportion of medium to high paying jobs.
Until stuff like that becomes reality and not just science fiction, we're {insert four letter word here}.
I want to be clear though that I do not wish for Miami to succumb to the effects of climate change. However it is not look good for it, as well as most of Florida, right now. Even if new technologies come along that stave off it's worst effects, climate change will undoubtedly change the math for the Miami area.
Specifically, it will be very hard for the poor to make the necessary adjustments needed to survive. We already have precedence with the diaspora that occurred in New Orleans after Katrina. What is headed for Miami will make Katrina look like a minor flood.
I think Atlanta has the most potential when we're talking about a projection three and a half decades out.
The rationale for this is that Atlanta is not so geographically constrained to further develop out. It has multiple cities fairly close in different directions with which it can form a larger powerful region. It has a fairly large split of private and public sector jobs and has major players in a greater diversity of industries than Miami does. Its host to several research institutions including major research universities and the CDC. Its the locus of the state government for its growing state as well as for regional branches of federal entities. It's in a location that will be a bit less directly susceptible to the damages of climate change whereas Miami/South Florida is in a particular vulnerable position and this timeframe is just long enough for even the more cautious of predictions to present a significant issue.
Probably the largest issue right now for Atlanta and its region is how split the governing body is in regards to municipalities and counties which causes a lot of inefficiencies and ineffective general planning. Miami and South Florida seems to have done surprisingly well for itself in comparison.
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