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I live in Venice, Italy. This issue has been urgent and critical for Venetians for a few decades now. The problem here is that even a 60cm (2 feet) increase in
by simonebrunozzi 1y ago
I live in Venice, Italy. This issue has been urgent and critical for Venetians for a few decades now. The problem here is that even a 60cm (2 feet) increase in sea level would essentially:
1) force to shut the dams (MOSE) almost always during the year.
2) ruin the lagoon ecosystem
3) create uncountable damage to the city of Venice, and nearby islands.
4) possibly displace tens of thousands of people.
- pc86 1y agoNot trying to be pedantic but how can something both "be urgent and critical" and have been a problem for "a few decades?"
- kjkjadksj 1y agoIn the same way an asteroid doomed to strike in a few decades is urgent and critical
- ehnto 1y agoThis is a perfect example actually, the remediation actions required should have been taken decades ago, it was urgent then. We have just gotten so used to seeing no immediate downside to kicking the can down the road that we have collectively forgotten how urgent it was. Now it is urgent and critical still, but we have far fewer options for remediation. Kind of like how changing your cars oil is urgent once you cross the service date. You don't immediately see any downsides, but they are accumulating, you can't roll back the damage, and total failure to change the oil is eventually catastrophic.
- chgs 1y ago60cm would basically wipe out some countries and cause the loss and displacement of dozens of millions as cities like Dhaka and Jakarta are flooded