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Earth Under Water (Original Post)
Mr_Jefferson_24
Mar 2013
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Oakenshield
(614 posts)1. Cheerful future.
Anyone else doubt there will be such advanced dams and levies built in time?
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)3. We could do
whatever needs to be done. We could have maybe avoided the worst of this when the first Jeremiads warned us in the 70s. The main obstacle to saving our civilization now is the same as then. The "job creators" will never willingly relinquish control of the power and resources needed to do it even if it destroys them also.
Oakenshield
(614 posts)5. Precisely so.
As per the usual, I imagine anything done to mitigate damages due to global warming will only be carried out after the catastrophe has struck. Only then will there enough public outcry to incite real change.
2naSalit
(86,550 posts)2. I have to watch this later
but thanks for the vid.
Mr_Jefferson_24
(8,559 posts)6. You're welcome. nt.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)4. I don't know which the rich care about more....
Losing their expensive coastal land or the idea that current poor people will own future coastal land.