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Estimates of sea-level rise displacement are overstated when accounting for adaptation.
Drawn from what Bjørn Lomborg said
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- Bjørn Lomborg Danish author; president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center
We are warned that rising seas could displace 187 million people, a figure that assumes humanity does nothing for an entire century. Once you account for the seawalls and adaptation that people obviously undertake, that estimate of displacement turns out to be overstated 600-fold or more.
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