By 2050 most of our major cities will be under severe attack from rising water levels .
Throughout the modern era we have carried on expanding our cities on the coast, this i believe will cause major problems as we battle to save them, but throughout history we are taught that mother nature will win the battle
The complete disregard and arrogance towards our planet as we are lead by our greed towards bigger and bigger ,and of course the never ending head long race for the profit above all else will as in the past destroy this civilization.
If we were alive at the time of the Roman empire or the Height of the Egyptians ,no one at that time could or would believe that a global power would one day with all their armies and wealth disappear back into the dust and sand..
Why is it then that we in the modern era believe we are so superior to them and the countless civilizations that have come before us.
As on Easter island if taken as a small example of the way we treat the planet they destroyed all the resources which led to major battles between the island tribes.
As when scientists were puzzled by signs of a massive sunami and fallout from a volcano that had spread across the world could not for years find out where it was situated ,they had a rough idea it was somewhere in the yellowstone national park and hunted and hunted for it..
Only when we entered space and with the use of satellites was the answer revealed and the true horror or complete awe visible.
The whole of Yellowstone Park was an immense crater ..
Sometimes we have to take a stand back to really get a picture of what is going on
as is my belief about the rat race not until one day when i said to myself enough did i finally understand the complete madness of it..
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I know that this is true, but what to do????
Hi 7th heaven
thanks for popping bye
took a wee while to answer but hope it makes sense.
All i can say in response is that it is my belief that we must all stop relying on governments ,emergency authorities etc which even now are stretched to breaking point when a crisis occurs..
for example i am laughed at for carrying spares , food ,shovels etc when i go out driving,but i think you must be daft if you travel mountain roads without essentials for your own survival the weather can change so fast ..
Just as the teacher that brought 30 kids to Aviemore in the mountains in t-shirts could have almost through their stupidity caused the death of those kids..
We all have to take control of our own life’s and think for ourselves to start to open our eyes and minds and start to do things in unison with nature..
I often imagine being aboard the Titanic and how i would manage ,and it is my belief that we are all aboard the Titanic and rushing head first to our own iceberg. but as then, some people will survive ..
with regards the cities flooding i think that we will end up with huge cities not un like Venice but on a global scale.
I have seen places flooded and the damage it has caused not to mention the emotional damage to people’s life’s.
But it has always amazed me that the insurance companies move in and if you are lucky they will help to build and replace all the things almost to how they were before
then it happens again and again the cycle repeats itself, madness then the insurance company refuses to cover you anymore…
Surely if you live in a place that has the threat of flooding you have to look at it in a different way, if you live in a flood plain it WILL get wet and throughout the country hosing has been built on ancient flood plains, madness unless you prepare.
why not :
1. Have a boat ready (this could be a simple blow up boat)
2. Tile the lower floor so if you are flooded the water will pass through the house easier ,in cities the first few floors could have this done
3. Move your main living area to the top floor
4. Build houses that rise in floods ,crazy eh ( the Dutch already do this )
5. Make sure you have an emergency pack containing essential supplies. food candles radio solar panel for power etc etc
4 cb radio
5 Don’t rely on the massive electric companies as they WILL fail at the time of an emergency
6 Don’t rely on the gas companies as they too will fail also
7. Be prepared that way it isn’t such a shock
I guess that we have to STOP fighting our planet and go with it especially as we are the ones that have and will cause so much damage as the population increases and increases
We live on a planet that is almost 80% covered in water and this will rise therefore by it’s nature land will be reduced throughout the Earth.
so i guess in the future we will have to adapt to living on it or near it in a different way from what we do now.. A global Venice rather beautiful sorry i digressed..
To this dafthermit i just don’t understand so much of what i see ,we live on a special lump of rock in the universe called Earth.
But i believe it is our destiny to travel the universe , on the planet now less then 1% of the people are nomadic , we settle in our wee house and never move ..
People laugh or sneer at travellers in their buses, trucks ,boats etc .
Are you never going to settle ?
No, not while i am still breathing …
But we are all travellers aboard the great ship Earth as she hurtles through space so even the most adamant static soul is in fact travelling faster than they can imagine..
But just as the first person that headed out the cave and wondered across to the forbidden lands with shouts of doom etc ringing in his or her ears,
Ii believe we will one day be ready to head off on the true journey , but i suppose we are not ready looking at the state of things now , and just as you have to have lessons before you can drive a car we have to learn to become a better species before we head of and inflict our crap on another world..
You seem well prepared for anything. In relation to Yellowstone, it is actually a super volcano that could erupt again - goodbye America.
Here in New Zealand we have another super volcano; there are a number scattered around the world. Boom! Goodbye south Pacific.
Leaves a lot to consider.
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Hi Kiwi Riverman
thanks for popping bye
aye you are so right there are forces that we will never control, but i believe we have to gtake control of our lifes and not leave it up to governments ,i also believe that living a greener life we will live a more careful and wiser time on the planet
thanks again for popping bye andy the dafthermit
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Hi from the Dafthermit thankyou so much for taking the time to post your comment and i hope you will pop back to see us
Andy happy travels