Yes, without climate mitigation infrastructure, much of America's industrial, agricultural, shipping, etc capacity will be destroyed. Additionally, land lost to sea level rise is gone unless far, far more money and labor is spent on reclamation. Most of America's major cities are on coasts.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

i think they really thing they're going to have general AI and a fully automated workforce any second now so they are just preparing to cull everyone except a population of chosen pets

even if the more technocratic types wanted to deal with it the ruling class has just decided climate change is too big to deal with

so just shrink everything down to robots, auto-factories in a few city-states in the far north