Bill GreenPlanet's coastal cities will be underwater by 2030
May 22nd 2008 23:36
The planet's governments haven't understood yet that by 2030 their cities on the coast - yes, and look at those - will be underwater.
A French economist once wrote that a country that doesn't have its capital city on a trading harbour will last no more than several centuries. He may be wrong but it certainly highlights the hazards of not planning for an underwater future.
London has begun planning with tidal ducts that will be at the end of their operational life by 2030, for they have taken that date aboard as the time London will be flooded. Cities have plans for controlling carbon emissions but they haven't taken into account all the cities that haven't planned along those lines and will be pouring carbon into the atmosphere for another decade or so.
It looks increasingly as if Gaia (the planet is a super organism) proponent Lovelock is right and now there is nothing we can do, except enjoy the several decades we have.
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