Sea level rise will obviously have a direct impact on certain coastal areas.  Do you think that the burdens of dealing with this problem should be the responsibility of all countries, or just the countries with the impacted coastal areas?

Examined from a practical standpoint do I think the world is going to aid every nation where a coast line will be affected by sea level rise? Is Saudi Arabia going to aid Israel if massive flooding happens there? Probably not in this particular universe. Is the U.N. going to show up and help in Bangladesh if they get flooded out? That’s sort of what they exist to do.

In our collective unconcious we can only really see past our massive differences through the empathy of tragedy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious Flooding is easy to relate to for most countries because most of them have rivers that flood.  It’s why the movie “Independence Day” has one of the best speeches in any movie ever about the fourth of July no longer being an american holiday, because we can all empathize with fighting aliens, even though we’ve never actually done that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t1IK_9apWs

But if the question is will any country put the well being of people they’ve never met before over the needs of their people, even if they really don’t want to meet those same needs. You ever met a politician who ran on a platform of, “Let’s help those people over there with that thing”? I didn’t think so. This is probably gonna be a country by country solution.