Re: Warming Sinking Alaskan Village - Too Lazy to Move Buildings ?

On Mar 5, 11:52 am, lumin...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Luminoso) wrote:
On 5 Mar 2007 08:38:14 -0800, "DefendUSA.blogspot.com"





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On Mar 5, 11:27 am, lumin...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Luminoso) wrote:
via news.bbc.uk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6414523.stm
Island people swallowed by the sea

Melting ice caps are forcing polar bears further inland
This week saw the launch of International Polar Year, an initiative in
which scientists from 60 countries will study the Arctic and
Antarctic, with the major focus on climate change.

The BBC's David Willis travelled to the remote Alaskan island of
Shishmaref, a community that is being destroyed by climate change.

It is not quite the end of the world but you could probably see it
from here.

Shishmaref loomed as a dot on the landscape as our twin-engined Cessna
cargo plane cut through snow-capped mountains.

We had flown to the edge of the Arctic circle, to a wilderness
captivatingly beautiful yet inhospitably remote - a land where it
seemed human beings were never meant to live.

I was last here nearly three years ago to witness the effects of
global warming on this community of nearly 600 people.

For several decades the people of this barrier island have been
fighting a losing battle with nature.

Not only are the glaciers melting, causing sea levels to rise, but the
frozen ground on which the village was built - also known as
permafrost - is thawing, making the ground crumble like sand.

Shishmaref is a community that is literally being swallowed by the
sea.

Village elder Tony Weyiouanna estimates the tide moves an average of
10 feet (three metres) closer to the land every year.

Two homes have already toppled into the sea, others have wilted and
buckled and now teeter ominously at the cliff's edge.

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People AREN'T meant to live there.

Clue : Drag the shacks back from the water. Is that
too difficult to comprehend ? Apparently they're
content to just sit there and watch valuable building
materials get sucked out to sea one plank at a time
instead of DOING something like disassembling the
damned buildins and MOVING them.

It's not as if they are surrounded by other property
owners. Just ice and rock. It's not as if their buildings
are monolithic concrete structures that can't be slavaged.
Has the welfare mentality penetrated THAT far north ?
"Wah ! Wah ! I'm helpless ! Send government money and labor
and a case of beer for me to drink while I sit around and
watch them do all the work !".

Before there were tin and pasteboard buildings there were
igloos. They melted every year and were rebuilt wherever
was most appropriate. Maybe the old way was the more
sensible way ? Low impact, eco-friendly, energy-efficient.
Al Gore would love you for it !

China is going to keep making more CO2. India is going
to keep making more CO2. The west is going to keep making
more CO2. The upshot is that it's GOING to get warmer.
Plan for it.

"People AREN'T meant to live there."

By that theory, people are not meant to live anywhere.

"Anywhere" ? An interesting deduction.

People have
lived there for as long as there have been people in the Americas,
longer than any written or oral history.

Yea, and froze their cojones off.

Do you say the same thing for
New York, Boston, Rome, Jerusalem, and any other city that will be
flooded by ocean rise due to global warming? 76 percent of all humans
live in areas that will be flooded. Are people not meant to live there
either?

They'll have to move those cities too. No real hurry, but
when they replace an old waterfront building they'd best
rebuild further inland. Use the empty space for parking or
whatever until it finally goes under for good.

If an asteroid hit the earth, your comment would be "People AREN'T
meant to live there."?

That would be pretty conclusive evidence. It would mean
this neighborhood is just too full of flying rocks for
people or maybe ANY kind of life. Of course if we're
smart enough to move back the buildings, so to speak,
deflect the asteroids ...

In your mind, is it all people who have no right to live, or only
certain people?

Ask the bird flu virus. Ask the asteroid. Ask the supernova.
The universe does not convey "rights". We either EARN them
or are blown randomly in the winds of fortune.- Hide quoted text -

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Well, you may be a wack job, but at least you are consistant.

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