Wanderer Vagabond

What I always find interesting when this topic comes up is the parochial view often expressed, along the line of 'Yeah, this is just a natural occurrence' which is fine I guess until it is your house that is flooded for the third time in three years, you can no longer get anyone to insure it and it is obviously unsaleable so the house that you have piled a load of money and effort into making a home out of is now a worthless pile of bricks. On a more macro level, when the likes of Pakistan (population 244 million) disappears under the repetitive flooding, are you going to be welcoming of a whole load of Pakistanis (and others) looking for somewhere to live? This may well previously have happened 10,000 years ago, but that isn't today.