No, you're actually correct, the Netherlands is sinking. The minuscule rise and sea level doesn't really have a lot to do with it.They are!
That's why we like tourist's, vacation's.
But then again we have a semi- legal Cannabis system. RC's and undulterated MDMA, no Fentanyl AFAIK and test facilities.
And were are slowly sinking in the sea. I am 2 meters above high tide, surrounded by dikes. But that ain't gonna last. As the sea keeps rising.
Extraction of natural gas, oil, salt, groundwater, and mining of peat bogs has led to widespread subsidence in the Netherlands and other low-lying coastal communities around the world.
People don't realize that the aquifers actually cushion the bedrock in some places.
In the United States on the eastern seaboard the number one reason for subsidence is pumping of groundwater for agriculture and human use.