According to this documentary by National Geographic, if sea level where to rise just three feet, 80% of Bangladesh would be underwater, devastating food supply and displacing millions of people. What would this mean for the Islands within the Pilipinas archipelago?
The critical point is that this is a scenario that has enough potential to warrant concern and the stakes are just too high to gamble against. Isn't it our responsibility to provide for the generations of the future?
According to San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), even if the measures necessary to halt the conditions contributing to Climate Change were taken, certain impacts such the rapid increase of world wide sea level rise is now irreversible. They estimate that by 2050 sea level will have increased by 16 inches, best case scenario.
What can we possibly do to change our trajectory? So many still do not take the situation seriously. I feel urged to determine a sound approach to a "best case scenario" future; a future which has very different variables than I ever imagined would be at play.
Again, the hypotheticals explored in this film only address the consequences of Sea Level Rise. It does not focus any of the other number of hazardous possibilities human kind faces.
They are cause for at least attention and deserves consideration.
Still business as usual?
I would not bet my family on it.
Even more reason to reassess how the future is approached and just how the role of sustainable culture will play for our descendants.
Strategy not for Armageddon, but for best case scenario...with capability for contingency.
ART Project- Adapting to Rising Tides -San Francisco Community
Sea Level Rise Bay Area, map -Geology.com
SPUR- San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association
Philippines Flood Map -GlobalFloodMap.org
National Geographic
Global Warming Conspiracy Theory??? -Jessie 'The Body' Ventura
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