11-23-2009, 09:12 PM
Quote:You don't see an issue then with people choosing to live within a meter of sea level, or below sea level? Worrying about floods in Bangladesh, would be like worrying about lethal cold weather in Minnesota. I seem to recall a nation that reclaimed a significant portion of their territory from the sea by using technology...Of course you are right in theory....but try to explain that to those 200 million people in the Ganges Delta who were born there and or so poor that even thinking about moving somewhere else costs too much.
It is easy talking when you are born in the right place, doesn't matter if you are right or not.
Again, the big advantage you have is that you can consume 100 times the global average human energy consumption and your only problems are high taxes or a gas price of 4 dollars a gallon.....your behavior can be compared with a person living in a danger zone.....difference is that that person often doesn't have a choice.
The Netherlands will be fine.....we know how to protect ourselves from the sea.....most of the country is below sea level already.....an extra meter just means pumping a bit harder.....in Bangladesh they don't have this possibility.