Prospective Aquatic Brandscaping Megaproject Addressing Climate Change and Coronavirus of the Coastal Californias: The Intersection of Natural and Anthropic 2020 AD Impacts

ABSTRACT

In the future, the coastal Californias territories of Mexico and the USA, here referred to as "the Region, " may be adversely affected by some degree of climate change and possibly by some sea-level rise social stress issues, but only if no infrastructural adaptation is undertaken to successfully cope with these geophysical and hydrometeorological stressors. Geoengineering efforts no doubt will be impacted by the drastic socioeconomic effects introduced during 2020 into the Region's major metropolitan areas by the COVID-19 pandemic. Harshening Region-wide desert climate regime changes and seaport sea-level rise effects will necessitate vast and enormous geographical changes to the supportive economies as well as the demographics of Mexico's Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California and the USA's Southwest, which includes the coastal State of California. Basic governmental obligation is to ensure robust population health. In this incident of epistemic trespass, the authors speculate on some of the most important infrastructure developments and population shifts that might occur in the Region in the near-term (2030-2050). Comity is essential for peaceful bi-national prosperity in this aridic, internationally-shared hinterland of North America that includes part of the western USA's Great Basin. For too many years, freshwater consumers on either side of the Region's international border have been forced to live in suspension between advertised zombie megaproject plans and the bleak civil society engendered by aborted, unsatisfactorily modified or non-materialized megaprojects. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.