We don't, of course, know exactly how high or how fast sea level rise will go exactly, but estimates keep going up. And as posts here have tried to remind people repeatedly (apparently to no avail! :/ ), the latest understanding of how Antarctic ice sheets (and probably) others go once they really start to go is that it can be a much, much faster processes than even the best glaciologists imagined possible up to just a few years ago.
But of course, sea level rise is just one of the many very deadly effects of rapid global warming, so if you don't like slr, just pick any of the others as you prefer (as folks here know, the arrival and rapid spread of wet bulb temperatures above the survivable level is my 'favorite'
:/ ).
But back a bit closer to the putative topic of the thread:
Piketty (and many others) in the Guardian propose a new model for Europe:
"four
major European taxes, the tangible markers of this European solidarity.
These will
apply to the profits of major firms, the top incomes (over €200,000 a year), the highest wealth owners (over €1m ) and carbon emissions (with a minimum price of €30 a tonne).
If it is fixed at 4% of GDP, as we propose, this budget could finance research, training and the European universities, an ambitious investment programme to transform our model of economic growth, the financing of the reception and integration of migrants, and the support of those involved in carrying out this transformation. It could also give some budgetary leeway to member states to reduce the regressive taxation that weighs on salaries or consumption."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -europeans(thanks to sidd at asif for this one)
OK, you may now continue to howl and grown, and to mewl and puke, and whatever else it seem you all love to do here