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As a perso from a small island, I find the thought of sea level rise allarming. If I were in the continental US I'd probably not give a shit about sea level rise - why worry when it's 50 miles away?
The problem is that all of us, everywhere are tied together in a web of nature and it's clearly getting more stressed.
I love it when people say "we have to save the earth". As I stated on the thread about national pride the other day, Shaw said that patriotism is the belief that your country is best because you were born there. We all behve like the earth will end if people are in trouble. The Earth will be fine - but we may well find that the parts of it where people can comfortably live shrink, and that will cause wars, famines, die back, all sorts of things.
In the 18th Century, the main wars were expansion into areas of lower population. In the 19th Century, the main wars were clashes between economic empires. In the 20th they were clashes between political empires. In the 21st they are likely to beover water and resources.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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