Nations without Land - Do We Have a 'New Normal' Under Rising Sea Level?: Pangaea Perspective
https://www.rozen-bakher.com/timeline-risks/30/04/2022/1650
Published Date: 30 April 2022
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Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher
Researcher in International Relations with a Focus on Security, Political and Economic Risks for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade
30 April 2022 at 16:50. More familiar to us is a situation in which a population has a territory yet is fighting for sovereignty, but we are less used to a situation in which a population has sovereignty on vanishing land due to the rising sea level, although that will be the new fight in the coming future.
The Maldives is already fighting with the rising of the sea level, which is anticipated to lead to the disappearance of most of the country by 2050. Still, the current situation in the Maldives likely signals how this fighting will be in many other places worldwide in the coming future. Hence, is it possible to stop the rising of the sea level? And if not, what are the solutions/alternatives for sovereign countries with a population yet with vanishing land territory due to the rising sea level?
18 April 2020 at 08:17. It seems that the big risk of global warming in terms of costs and territories is the change in the Earth’s surface. If we look at that from a historical geology perspective under Pangaea theory, then we are in a continuing geological process that may escalate in times of warming cycles on Earth or under dramatic natural disaster events. Hence, in our time, the melting of the Arctic and Antarctica alongside the increase in earthquakes and even in volcanic activity like the case of Tonga are supposed to lead to a significant change in the Earth’s surface in a way that some land territories will vanish when the sea level rises, while other land territories will become non-ice lands like what is already happening in the Arctic and Antarctica. However, the big risk of this geological process is the landslides because the landslides could change the Earth's surface in many places on the globe, including in the middle of cities, while creating vital damage to infrastructure and buildings. We have no ability to stop a change in the Earth's surface but at least to prevent escalation in the global warming, while the planning of the urbanisation should take into account potential landslides and changes in the sea level.
Pangaea - Wikipedia; Landslide - Wikipedia; What Did Pangaea Look like? - YouTube; Video Captures Massive Volcanic Eruption In Tonga - YouTube
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