I have been think lately, futher to a conversation with an friend of mine the impact that the rising sea level will have on the future genrations.
As a reasearch topic we are focusing on three main outcomes of the rising sea level in the future. Ofcourse these are all speculative, but they really do get the mind thinking of the "what if factor".
1. unexpected natural disater
What if we were to wake up on a normal day in the week and be faced with a catastrophic disater with the likes no one has ever seen. Rising sea level which are rising at 10 cemetres every hour.
Lised below would be some of the major issues which at the moment no such structure has been put in place, how will these issues be address?
-emergancy evacuation procudure
-saving iconic buildings
-social impact and migration
-physical transformation of the city
2. Gradual rise in sea levels
We know for a fact that the sea is rising every day, albeit on a very small scale (1cm over a couple years). But what we also know is that the rise is expenetial. What we dont know is the direction on the curve in the diagram. It could shoot up on a very steep inclination for all that we know. Again below is some areas we will like to look into.
-technologies and systems put in place
-gradual build up of infrastucture in another location and social impacts of this, ie social classes who will have better previliages etc.
-while sea levels rise is there any long term plan to try to decrease it? even though it is increasing?
3. adapt to the rise
Could sydney be a another Venice. Yes we know that the scale of the two cities are dramatically diffrent but what about socially, are sydney siders ready to packand leave or make due of what has confronted them?
-benifits and deteriments of this organism working?
-social impact ?
I am curious to read other responses in relation to this topic. Do you think that the social impacts will undermine the physical transformation?
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