Updated 9:12 AM ET, Mon December 16, 2019
London (CNN)The stark reality of climate change is that even the cities that seem best defended against rising sea levels face the potential of catastrophic flooding.
Take London, capital of the UK.
It’s in a strong position: Wealthy, with a government that recognizes the danger of climate change, and a river that can — for now — be shut off from dangerous tidal and storm surges.
And yet, no city or person is immune from climate change.
At least 1 million Londoners live in the estuary’s natural floodplain and 16% of the city’s properties — 84,000 — are considered to be at “significant or moderate risk.”
Humans have already put so much greenhouse gas into the earth’s atmosphere that some amount of sea level rise is inevitable.
“Even if we reduce our emissions…
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