"Global warming" is old news. But recent destructive weather events indicate the dire warnings climatologists have been providing may not have been dire enough.
Governments obviously have an obligatory leadership role. But the consequence of inaction is so dire, private industry has taken initiative preempting government strategy.
Commercial electric power providers have increased the proportion of renewable generated power of their total energy output. We're gradually wringing Carbon out of commercial power generation, a trend author Jeremy Rifkin observed in his book
The Hydrogen Economy.
Ironically, generations ago vehement opponents of nuclear commercial power generation protested nuclear power due to environmental impact. In light of "global warming", nuke plant opponents have reversed their position, favoring nuclear commercial electric power generation,
because nuclear power-plants are virtually Carbon neutral, unlike flagrant Carbon emitters like coal-fired power-plants.
Has humanity gotten it about right? Allowing standard attrition to purge polluting equipment from humanity's pollution landscape?
And even if highlanders survive the next few decades relatively unperturbed, what of the millions of lowlanders, whose homeland may be inundated due to global warming caused polar ice-cap melting raising sea level?
Earth is running out of vacant, unoccupied, habitable area.
What countries and cities will disappear due to rising sea levels?
By
Joe Phelan published March 27, 2022
Which countries will be most affected?
First, let's look at the countries with the lowest elevations.
According to the
Union of Concerned Scientists (opens in new tab) (UCS), the Maldives, made up of 1,200 small coral islands and home to around 540,000 people, is the flattest country on
Earth, with an
average elevation of just 3 feet (1 m) (opens in new tab). Should the Maldives experience sea level rise on the order of just 1.5 feet (45 cm), it will lose around 77% of its land area by 2100, according to the UCS.
Another country with an extremely low average elevation — around 6 feet
(1.8 m) above sea level (opens in new tab) — is Kiribati. This small island in the heart of the Pacific, with a population of close to 120,000, could lose two-thirds of its land if sea levels rise by 3 feet.
Government and industry are engaged. Are you? What is your "Carbon footprint"? Do you think the generation of your grandchildren will be able to live a lifestyle unfettered by crisis level sacrifice?
The fate of humanity? No worries? Or a "nail-biter"?