Rising Water Levels Washing Entire Town Into Sea
The global warming that republicans and other lunatics claim doesn’t exist is making its presence known to the 350 residents of Newtok, Alaska. According to the Guardian, exile is inevitable because their coastal village, located some 480 miles west of Anchorage, is in the process of being washed into the Bering Sea.
As the Guardian explains in an in-depth look at the town, the Ninglick River flows past three of Newtok’s sides on its path to the sea, and it’s been chipping away at the village at a rate that’s only grown more aggressive due to climate change (more than 100 feet of shoreline gone some years), which has been linked to melting permafrost and dwindling protective sea ice.
The US Army Corps of Engineers surveyed the village, and offered no break to the gloom: It concluded that seawalls or other protective measures wouldn’t work, and that Newtok’s highest point could be underwater in just four years. The villagers must leave (a tribal administrator tells Alaska Public Radio relocation has been a major town talking point for the last three decades), leading the Guardian to dub them “America’s first climate change refugees.”
The villagers selected a new site nine miles away, but moving the town there could cost $130 million, and relocation efforts have yet to truly get off the ground. And while Newtok may be first to disappear, it likely won’t be last: A decade-old GAO report found 184 Native villages in Alaska could be at risk.
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On the plus side Newtok residents can have a nice paddle on a summers day as they step out of their beds?
Apparently the climate isn’t changing in the Republican world.
If the climate isn’t changing then how come we had bloody snow in England a couple of days before summer started. Somethings certainly screwy here.
Climate change won’t matter as long as it’s only happening to “those” people. When it starts affecting the “correct” people, then it will become an urgent matter.
Bingo! You have precisely nailed it. As long as it’s someone else, it doesn’t matter and isn’t even happening.
One of my Universal Truths is, “The most popular human activity is denial.”