Thomas's choice
We ought to be preparing the defence of our coastal areas from the rise of waters estimated at about half a meter by 2070. Developing countries are particularly at risk and as the value of their assets keeps increasing, it will cause a major economic crisis.
Are we wasting time and jeopardising our planet?
2 comments:
It's a very complicated thing, to protect oneself against something you can't predict, something you can't control. And natural catastrophes happend all the time: if it's not hurricanes, it's earth quakes, or volcanos...
There's always a better way to protect oneself agains these things, but unfortunately, they always have to be tested, and the best way to test them, is to try them agains the real thing. But I'd like to point out, that the heart or hurricane Katrina did not go through New Orleans, but through the nabouring State, and we almost didn't hear anything about them, all we heard about in the news was the chaos in New Orleans. This meens the city wasn't prepared for that hurricane.
We already know an awful lot about protecting ourselves agains something that has theatened the human race for millenia. The thing now is to spread the knollege to the parts of this planet that neads it the most.
So I think we should still continue trying to emprove our defence systems, but we shouldn't be so selfish. All we have, all we know in the western civilasition, we've basically kept for ourselves, when so many countries need it. I just hope that we learn from our mistakes.
Thank you for your contribution Sonia
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