Another instructive point: tecca.com

Kiribati is, right now, in negotiations with Fiji to evacuate itself to Fiji. It’s tough being a country when most of your “land” is only land at low tide. The roughly 3 foot sea level rise now predicted for this century would put almost everything into that category.

As to desert tortoises, what of it if solar projects do kill them? It is this palsied unwillingness to accept even a little cost, to bear even a little burden, that has got us into this fix. If we don’t act now, and fix the problem when it will cost us a metaphorical fingernail pulled off, we shall later on have to saw off our own hand to get out of the trap. We will—-anything, any cost is better than even a brush with extinction. But it will hurt like crazy.