Beyond the 2025 Prophecy: Climate Crisis, Flood Risk, and the Coming Real Estate Value Flip

 The Japanese earthquake prophecy manga that's been flooding YouTube thumbnails lately feels like a warning message thrown at our society. Just as the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake suddenly became reality, the disaster prophecies for 2025 are no longer far-fetched tales in our age of climate crisis. The only questions are when it will happen and how devastating it will be. Climate change works the same way—nature gives us warnings and waits patiently for a long time, but when disaster strikes, it comes without warning.

The waterfront apartments and houses in low-lying areas that we've believed in and invested in as our "greatest assets" will inevitably see their value shaken when faced with the changing physical reality. Before mortgage terms come due, before we can even use these properties as retirement assets, the scenario where they get branded as flood-risk zones and their values plummet is no longer just imagination—it's a looming reality.

Meanwhile, it's the ultimate irony that the hillside neighborhoods and highlands where poor people used to live are now gaining the new premium of "safety" and becoming the prime real estate of future cities.

Just as typhoons need to turn the sea and sky upside down to create a healthy natural ecosystem, the same goes for the spaces built up by human capital and greed. The "change" that comes after all the warnings will fundamentally reshape not just the real estate market, but our society's class structure, financial systems, and the very sustainability of our nation.

Right now, we stand at a crossroads.

Will we turn away from physical reality and continue with dangerous investments and development driven by past inertia? Or will we accept the grave warning of climate crisis and redesign our cities, assets, and entire social systems according to new values of "safety" and "fairness"?

Capital builds its own fortress for sustainable wealth, but the typhoon still comes. The typhoon is merciless to everyone, whether inside or outside the castle walls. The boundaries between land that will be submerged and land that will rise above water, between unsafe and safe ground—these will all be determined by "climate risk" going forward.