Quote Originally Posted by Ozme52 View Post
I agree. The biggest negative impact of the icecaps melting is the inundation of the coastal areas where mankind lives. Forty percent of us are in coastal cities.

It'll displace all the myriad city people... where will they go. Inland... to where we tend to grow the food.

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Well, my understanding of it, Oz, is that it's not so much ice melting and water encroaching and eventually submerging large areas of land, but the fact that it's fresh water and therefore will severely impact on everything that lives in salt water, that has scientist so concerned.