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> Rising sea levels aren't new, it's ancient. Buying coastal properties always carries risk.

40% of the world’s population lives within 100 kilometers of the coast[1]. If one person makes a bad purchase of land, the problem is theirs. If 3 billion people make bad purchases of land, that's a problem for everyone in the world.

Probably we can't blame most of those people for much beyond being born where they were.

[1] https://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/methodolo...



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