Currently, fifty percent of the world’s population lives in coastal areas—and as “The Day After Tomorrow†taught us, human beings and dramatic flooding don’t exactly mix.
For a sneak-peek of the upcoming planetary devastation, you need only glance at the Alaskan village of Newtok. Within as little as five years, the entire township of four hundred people is predicted to be underwater, with the US Army Corps of Engineers estimating that the town’s highest point will vanish beneath the waves in 2017.
But it’s not just small communities that will be hit. Current estimates suggest that Venice will be uninhabitable by 2100, with Amsterdam and Los Angeles being deserted fifty years later. When that happens, there will be a large number of homeless, helpless people flooding into the “safer†cities—triggering an enormous battle for resources that will pose a threat to all of us, regardless of whether or not we live on a hillside.
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