<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div>I agree wholeheartedly that the Bangladeshis should be planning now to adapt to further sea level rises (and to some degree so does the Bangladeshi government). Such actions should lower the risks of upheaval and suffering, but I don't believe they'll eliminate the increased risk of such that sea level rise provides.</div><div><br></div><div>> Their style of galloping around twanging arrows at bison was greatly at risk, and whole</div>> tepee thing had to go.<div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt">Certainly. Of course the other thing that went was about 4 out of every 5 teepee dwellers, thus significantly reducing the need for travel
trailers.</div><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> spike <spike66@att.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, March 4, 2010 12:32:05 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ExI] Phil Jones acknowledging that climate science isn'tsettled<br></font><br>
...On Behalf Of Christopher Luebcke<br>...<br> Subject: Re: [ExI] Phil Jones acknowledging that climate science<br>isn'tsettled<br> <br> <br> >...What would you consider a realistic scenario for sea level rise<br>over the next, say, 50-100 years? About 17 percent of Bangladesh is at an<br>elevation of one meter or less; a sea level rise of even have that this<br>century (which is entirely realistic) would still displace millions and<br>destroy a large area of food-producing land... <br><br><br>Isn't there a European nation that is way down there in elevation? The<br>Netherlands? Why could not the people of Bangladesh embrace the technology<br>the Europeans pioneered a long time ago, build dikes, levies, windmills,<br>water handling technology, and so forth. They have plenty of time to get it<br>done. Failing that, they could dig out soil, make the high
places higher<br>and give the lower places back to the sea. <br><br>It isn't so much the Bangladesh people who are at risk, but rather their<br>low-technology lifestyles, a bit like the native Americans when the European<br>agriculturists started showing up in the 17th century. Their style of<br>galloping around twanging arrows at bison was greatly at risk, and whole<br>tepee thing had to go. These were replaced by pickup trucks, rifles and<br>travel trailers, which do the same jobs only better.<br><br>spike<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></span><br></div></div><div
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