I wonder what Americans would do if other countries worked together to put every single state apart from Alaska and half of Texas underwater in the next generation.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/80-of-maldives-could-b...
You could literally dredge up land 100x faster than sea levels rise for the Maldives.
There are many nasty consequences of global climate change, sea level rise is an irrelevant distraction from things like India heating up and ocean acidification.
Unfortunately it is not my impression that this is happening. (Also two neighboring countries - poland and czechia - of Germany have an even higher share of coal and one - the netherlands - is in the same ballpark.)
Which is ridiculous on its own, Poland has been ordered for years to shut down the Turow open-pit mine on the border to Germany and Czechia, they refused and were sentenced to 500.000€ per day of continued operation [1], got 15 million € in EU disbursements held back [2]... the size of that thing is insane [3].
[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/polen-tagebau-turow...
[2] https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/polen-eu-kommission-behaelt-n...
[3] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagebau_Tur%C3%B3w#/media/Date...
In February 2021, the Czech Republic sued Poland over the mine at the European Court of Justice, the first time that an EU member state had sued another one over an environmental issue.[10]
In May 2021, Poland defied an injunction by the court that ordered the immediate closure of the mine, claiming it would have an adverse impact the country's energy system and lead to the loss of thousands of jobs.[11]
Because Poland had not ceased lignite extraction activities at the Turów mine, on 20 September 2021, the Vice-President of the Court ordered Poland to pay the European Commission a daily penalty payment of half a million euros,[13] but the Polish government refused to comply.[4]
You probably are just not living in an area of concern.