About the World environment

[Emiliano]

And there are still powerful people, in the USA at least, who claim this isn't happening....

NYC was talking about building a sea wall to protect against rising sea levels and flooding from big storms like Sandy, but I haven't heard anything about it for a while. Considering the vast amount of people who live along coast lines globally, sitting back and doing nothing is going to make us vulnerable to a serious refugee crisis (which the world has already shown itself unable to handle on a smaller scale)... Not to mention the consequences of other climate change disasters not related to rising sea levels.

Ideally I'd like to think that because this is a threat to humanity on a global scale, we would be able to unite in some way to prepare and protect. I certainly believe in the potential of human creativity and ingenuity to create life saving infrastructure and systems - I don't think it's beyond our capabilities to save ourselves. But somehow, looking at how things are now, I can see it going down the opposite way.
Hopefully that's just me being dark though.