rising sea levels is fairly easy to overcome. Just build a waterproof wall all round the country. Just a couple of feet tall initially, then add to it as and when needed. Just call me isambard kingdom brunel.
Sea level rises is a myth. All of the water on the planet has been here for years. We aren’t making any new water. As the temp rises the ice caps melt. But because the temp has risen you get more evaporation, which in turn just makes it rain more, but a lot of this rain won’t fall directly back into the ocean, it will fall on land, where it’s quite easy to capture and release back into the ocean in a controlled rate, or pump it to places where they need it. Like big chunks of Africa which suddenly will become nicer places to live. Where this new rain falls, once arid areas will become lush and green. These new plants will trap and use the additional rainfall. As anyone who’s watched Jurassic Park knows, nature finds a way. About the only thing you’d not want to be is a polar bear. ......and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall melt. And they will plant vineyards and live in them, and drink the wine of them........ … And I will plant them upon their land, which I have given them, your God.
Don't know why kids from an early age, have to walk around with a bottle of water all the time .... once upon a time, you had a drink when you left the house and popped home or asked your mates mum for a drink of water. At school it was the water fountain in the cloakroom at break time ... now it seems they can't function without constant fluids.
Sea levels have risen and fallen in periods of warming and cooling over thousands of years. The North Sea and English Channel were land and river deltas and joined to Continental Europe. When the ice age retreated with global warming, the ice melted back and flooded the land which is now under the North Sea and English Channel. So sea levels do rise and fall over long periods of time, its normal and a natural occurrence. What we have now is a man made event causing warming over a relatively short time and we are aware of ice melting as a result. Whether the sea levels will rise to a big extent is debatable, nobody knows for sure.
I think she’s an astounding young person who has the ability to communicate at many levels because of her age and personality, and is using that ability to communicate to make a case for the collective ‘us’ to be more responsible about our environment and show some care for the world which we and all other life forms inhabit. It’s not just climate change, it’s pollution and effective and considered use of resources, and these are all things which affect us and our planet’s life now and will only have more impact as time goes on. Whether her efforts will make much difference overall I don’t know, but it will take a sea-change in approach at government level in policy and law setting, and I can’t see that that’s going to happen at a global level to an extent that will significantly alter the outcome of our actions. There’s too much financial gain at stake to deflect human nature from the path we’re on. But I think we do have to try. How we convince other societies who are perhaps going through their own evolution into ‘prosperous’ and ‘modern’ economies to stop doing what we ourselves did in our own industrial revolution I don’t know. It takes change from within as well as pressure from outside. And is it fine for us to take that stance while we probably consume more than they do and send our scrap and waste for them process and pollute in their part of the world...? I sit here with all the trappings of an ‘advanced’ society consuming everything I want to. The biggest challenge to our planet is population, that drives everything else we do to undermine nature. Of course there are natural events that have changed our climate massively - most likely if left to nature a catastrophe like an asteroid strike, solar storm, or even more likely a volcano, could obliterate much of our world’s life, but those events are not in our control, however we can try to reduce our own impact on the environment in ways we can control. Economics or necessity are the only things that will eventually dictate our move toward a more ecologically sound environmental attitude. In other words we’ll probably only do it when it’s in such a state that we have to. And it won’t be our generation that makes those significant changes, it’s her generation and those that follow that are more likely to have to face the issues we’re creating. Before then it’s more probable that we’ll blast it to smithereens with a nuclear war or some such Armageddon... Let her speak to anyone that’s willing to listen and make a difference on whatever scale they can, doing something is better than doing nothing, and that won’t happen without people like her making us think, because if we ignore her generation as we are currently doing for their prospects there is even less chance that our kids and further generations will have a future, and surely on a personal level if nothing else that matters? As for dinosaurs - I think they were genetically amazingly successful - they lasted for millions and millions of years - and when we’ve overpopulated and plundered everything we can and destroyed much that we sort of value that we see on TV programs - so long as they’re cute etc. - but are far too remote to really care much about, if the world ever recovers they’ll probably be back - along with insects and tardigrades of course. Good luck to them. We won’t be here much longer the way we’re going anyway. It’s too late. Ps I’ll not be buying an electric car anytime soon unless I’m legally or financially forced to. I like my old gas guzzlers far too much! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The sun is a dying star. All it will take to wipe us out,is a longer than normal solar flare...ask Brian Cox....
Lol. I was wondering if anyone might pick up on what that was. It’s from a 90s orb track called gala. I was feeling a bit preachy talking about saving the planet, and it popped into my head. That and Dave Angel from the fast show......4am in the morning, carried away on a moonlight shadow.
