Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Rising sea levels threaten hundreds of
millions -- and it's much worse than we thought
It is one of those global warming studies
that warn people and governments to act. But this newly released finding sounds
more alarming especially to those who live on the coastlines than ever before. Would
you still live in a place where there are coastal floods every year? Before
sinking into the sea, coastal regions will suffer such catastrophic disasters
regularly because of the rising sea levels. As ice sheets on the Himalayas, Greenland
and Antarctica are melting faster than before, and such disastrous floods will
change the landscape of coastal regions. Hundreds of millions of people are at
risk of displacement, which will cause unprecedented human migrations around
the world at a time when the entire population is expected to increase from
today’s 7.7 billion to over nine. It will not only be the land for people to
live on to become scarce but also farmlands to produce food for nine billion
stomachs.
2050 is no longer so far away future but is only
three decades from now. Indeed, you will face and suffer these environmental
problems that could become even worse than currently predicted.
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