Vietnam Finds Itself Vulnerable if Sea Rises
By SETH MYDANS
Published: September 23, 2009
Summary: In a worse-case projection, a Vietnamese government report released last month says that more than one-third of the delta, where 17 million people live and nearly half the country’s rice is grown, could be submerged if sea levels rise by three feet in the decades to come. While this is the worst case scenario the more modest projection is one fifth. This could possibly devastate Vietnam.
Response: this should wake some people up to see how bad the situation is. And even if you don’t care about Vietnam this is not the only country that will take a hit from the sea level rising.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment