Posted on 05/25/2022 2:39:38 PM PDT by dynachrome
UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ″eco- refugees,′ ′ threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.
He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.
As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.
Coastal regions will be inundated; one-sixth of Bangladesh could be flooded, displacing a fourth of its 90 million people. A fifth of Egypt’s arable land in the Nile Delta would be flooded, cutting off its food supply, according to a joint UNEP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study.
″Ecological refugees will become a major concern, and what’s worse is you may find that people can move to drier ground, but the soils and the natural resources may not support life. Africa doesn’t have to worry about land, but would you want to live in the Sahara?″ he said.
UNEP estimates it would cost the United States at least $100 billion to protect its east coast alone.
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Dinosaurs used to roam near where I live.
I remember The Ice Age Is Coming!!!!! in the mid 60’s and I’d be dead before I graduated from High School!
He was crazed in the eyes. Never saw him again but romanced his ex wife.
Hey Charlie, you out there? You're nuts.
Venice is gone. Algore said it would be underwater by 2010. For some reason it’s still on the map.
Hahahah………
Does that mean we’re not here?!?!
Since China is the biggest emitter of CO2, let all the refugees move to China!
As the article states, it is too late and now out of our control
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