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We can be sure that loads of people died in the coastal areas - but then the rate of change was greater, there were more catastrophic bursts of melt water from the glaciers. Also, you wouldn't believe the flooding from the Himalayan lakes that built up behind ice sheets. When the ice sheet barrier holding the lakes melted, well, you can guess the rest.
So you can't really compare what would happen now, with what happened then.
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