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Comment Re: And, the obvious ways to address this are ign (Score 3, Insightful) 128

You may be applying a niave perspective of the scale involved. A scaled-up wall doesn't account for water rising put of the ground. And one cannot pump even a centimeter of an ocean somewhere else. These average sea level effects create massive flood stages during powerful storms, leaving behind a soggy landfill. The only solution is moving to higher ground.

Comment Mass Migration (Score 1) 128

The primates are smart, but gullible and predictable. So, each decacde we should expect to see ever-larger forced movements of people from lowland coastal areas. The early signs would be: flooding, massive erosion, catastrophic pollution events, rising insurance premiums, real estate price drops and ultimately lower valuations then a reduced tax base. I suspect there's a map tracking these events and amounts already. Perhaps there'll be a hand-scrawled sign offshore somewhere saying "we will rebuild!"

Comment Re:Pills Won't Stop Your Sin (Score 1) 181

Obesity is not a disease. It's one symptom of metabolic disease, caused by overeating carbohydrates.

Plenty of people keep the weight off ... if they permanently change how and when they eat.

I'll agree that while exercise is very good for you, it has minimal impact on weight gain or loss.

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