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What if all the ice at the poles melted, would we survive?

If all the ice at the poles melted, the sea level would rise by nearly 70m. Because there is so much ice, it takes a very long time to melt it all. But it is currently melting, causing the sea level to go up by about 2 mm every year. At the current rate, we will all be long dead from old age before they are fully melted. But what happens to our children and the world they live in?

As the sea level goes up, some coastal cities and towns will start to flood and the higher sea level will erode the land from underneath the buildings. There will be difficult choices in the future; we will need to decide what gets left behind as we move to higher ground and what we try to save.

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