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.

It'll be a nightmare of logistics... and we might go down in proverbial flames.

But the world will survive. It's done this before. And myriad species go down with each cycle and new ones arise. The real reason we're upset is we can see it coming and it's going to change how mankind lives.
Whether it will be a logistic nightmare or not depends on how fast the melting will happen. This we do not know. So far, we have not seen any rise in the average sea level (which does not mean there must not be any).