Two weeks of bitter talks in Bali ended with the US compromising on a plan to start decreasing carbon emissions by 2009 in order to deal with worldwide rising temperatures. Only problem is that we may be too late, despite U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declaring, “This is the beginning, not the end.”
The jungles of SE Asia are gone, the Amazon rain forest are vanishing, and China and India have adopted a consumer society. Of course this isn’t the first time Man has destroyed the planet. Look what happened to Atlantis.
Not a trace of it left other than myths.
Could the same come true for Bangkok?
The Thai capitol along with Miami, Manhattan, and several other major coastal cities are threatened with inundation within 20 years, as the seas rise beyond their historic levels.
If WATERWORLD was a stinker of a money, what about the real thing?
Of course a great number of people refuse to believe in global warming, saying either there’s no data to back up the the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its claim that greenhouse gases have to reduced by 25 percent to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and halved by 2050. The American delegate was told by the delegate from Papua New Guinea, “If for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way.”
Doubters are everywhere.
“Some places are colder and some places are warmer.” A Brit said at lunch and cited Michael Crichton’s STATE OF FEAR as proof of global warming being a result of media-driven paranoid panic. “Tree huggers care more about owls than man.”
“The delta of the Chao Phyra river has lost 500 meters this year.” I was making up the facts, but a seaside temple had vanished under the waves. “Whatever is happening is because there are too many people. Look at Pattaya. Five years ago you could park anywhere other than Beach Road. Now we have traffic jams. Too many people, but it doesn’t matter the world can’t support another couple of billion people.”
“It could if the anarchists let us grow GM food.”
“GM food isn’t made to feed people, but to resist the companies pesticides.” The second I said this the Brit’s eyes rolled in his head like dice. “But it doesn’t matter to me, I’ll be dead by then.”
Actually my wife has 20 rai in Ban Nam Poo growing teak wood trees.
It’s about 100 feet above sea level.
We should be able to survive there if everything collapses like a house of cards.
Like in the year 2019.
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