Which will be the first City to be destroyed by the impact of climate change?
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New Orleans
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Define "city", please? Is Boston (US, pop. ~700k) a city? Is Mexico (Phillippines, pop. ~175k) a city?
Also - what would it mean for a city to be "destroyed"? Was New Orleans destroyed by Hurricane Katrina?
ALSO also - what do the impacts of climate change include? Flooding and extreme weather? Wildfires? Earthquakes from fracking and underground wildfires from coal-mining? Desertification? Popular uprisings from agricultural collapse?
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