tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2063346665722064661.post5006598728279930024..comments2023-04-06T18:17:19.705+05:30Comments on Liberty News Central: Wake me up when the Maldives really sink- and not beforeGurmeethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13280972685660325099noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2063346665722064661.post-22366534859552070362012-01-31T06:37:31.465+05:302012-01-31T06:37:31.465+05:30This is a copy of my letter to the International H...This is a copy of my letter to the International Herald Tribune and published on Sepember 12 2008:<br /><br />A self-inflicted problem<br /><br />In "Climate change: With millions under threat, inaction is unethical" (Views, Sept. 10) the president of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, contends that the Maldives are threatened by climate change, yet he fails to acknowledge that coral islands have survived during a rise in sea levels of 120 meters since the last ice age.<br /><br />Under natural conditions, coral is perfectly able to grow upwards, keeping pace with any relative rise in sea levels.<br /><br />If someone has to be blamed for the eventual demise of any of the Pacific or Indian Ocean coral islands, it is the inhabitants themselves. They are the ones who are destroying the natural coral habitat by creating roads and buildings, allowing bad fishing practices and many forms of pollution. With dead coral, these islands have no natural mechanism to keep them above water. The inconvenient truth is that these islands are not sustainable under permanent human inhabitation.<br /><br />Chris Schoneveld, Eysus, France<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Original comment date- 2008-11-13. See here- http://libertynewscentral.blogspot.com/2012/01/drudgery-of-importing-haloscan-comments.htmlChris Schoneveldhttp://web.me.com/chrisschoneveldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2063346665722064661.post-257612415701671922012-01-31T06:35:31.476+05:302012-01-31T06:35:31.476+05:30hehe. I am a Maldivian. Well I don't think we ...hehe. I am a Maldivian. Well I don't think we would be sunk by the end of teh century. This is just another way of talking rubbish. But its better to have a contingency approach to this; to the worst case scenario.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Original comment date- 2008-11-13. See here- http://libertynewscentral.blogspot.com/2012/01/drudgery-of-importing-haloscan-comments.htmlhannannoreply@blogger.com