The Netherlands in 2100, when all the ice has melted:
(I'm sorry, my friends. You're welcome to come to Germany, if you promise to bring your superior bike infrastructure.)
Knowing the Dutch, it's more likely that we'd see a Netherlands-shaped island in the ocean, next to where Germany used to be ๐
Weed is legal now, bring your greenhouses too
Nah, there will be a enormous glass dome with a few super terps where Friesland used to be.
โGod made the world but the Dutch made Hollandโ
Normal people: the sea is nice.
Dutch people: it's free real estate!
A much more effective war against Neptune
Did they conquer those areas from other kingdoms or were those previously flooded and they dammed them?
They defeated Poseidon and took what was once his.
Built dikes and pumped out the water.
The second. The Netherlands is like the worlds capital for land reclamation.
The sea level was higher in 1300, so it's a combination of a retreating sea and reclaiming land.
See, that would be contrary to my expectation, because hotter Earth = higher sea level, at least until all ice is melted.
So, I looked it up and that also seems to be the case for the Netherlands. In fact, their land levels are even falling, too, because they lost a lot of peat over the centuries:
Source: https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2023/04/23/land-subsidence-in-the-netherlands/
(Not the greatest source, but seems to match up with everything else I found.)
