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Audio_Al (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 11:44 PM Original message |
Coast villages to be sacrificed to the sea (News from the UK) |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
1. storm surge turned out to be minor event according to radio report nt |
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Audio_Al (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 11:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. The article speaks of things to come in the next 30 years, Msongs. |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 12:03 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. referring to this line in the OP - |
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Audio_Al (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 02:48 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Sorry about that. |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 05:50 AM Response to Reply #2 |
15. Those actually appear to be |
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T_i_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 08:13 AM Response to Reply #2 |
20. Those are beach huts |
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benh57 (101 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 11:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Story not directly related to surge |
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Audio_Al (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 11:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Exactly. |
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hang a left (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:42 AM Response to Reply #5 |
27. Appears some people may have lived there... |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 06:54 PM Response to Reply #27 |
39. Not in the beach huts, if that's what you mean |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 06:55 PM Response to Reply #3 |
40. If so then you you might have great difficulty |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
4. disaster capitalism |
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Audio_Al (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 03:04 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Yes. Naomi Klein has quite an active web site. She even had a review in the UK. |
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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 11:03 AM Response to Reply #12 |
28. I'm reading it now! I didn't know how bad the coal miners were hit by Thatcher! |
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Delphinus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 11:25 AM Response to Reply #28 |
31. I've only read a long story someone |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 12:52 AM Response to Original message |
7. I wonder if the US has done a 30 year assessment? or more? |
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Audio_Al (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 02:45 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Excellent point. They haven't been able to resolve the problem in the one city that has suffered |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 01:55 AM Response to Original message |
8. Settlements and farms. So rural, so unpopulous. |
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Audio_Al (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 02:47 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Aquart, I am a 73 year old man. I am sitting here... |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 06:02 AM Response to Reply #10 |
17. Me, too. |
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Delphinus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 11:38 AM Response to Reply #17 |
32. aquart, you have brought up |
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Divine Discontent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 03:45 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. that's why I think NASA is leaving Cape Canaveral for Houston in a few years... n/t |
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lynnertic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 11:20 AM Response to Reply #8 |
30. wyoming |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 03:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
38. I wouldn't be so hasty in dismissing those farmlands and the folks who work them. |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-14-07 09:18 AM Response to Reply #8 |
47. What about New Orleans? |
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intaglio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:58 AM Response to Original message |
14. It's not News, its the Torygraph |
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fedsron2us (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 05:57 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. In this case fighting nature is pointless |
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Audio_Al (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 01:55 PM Response to Reply #16 |
35. Fedsron2us, that is a fascinating link! Thanks for posting it. |
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T_i_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 08:17 AM Response to Reply #14 |
21. You mention the sea walls out Maldon way |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 07:24 AM Response to Original message |
18. Does this mean that Big Oil has taken top priority in the UK also? |
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Preening Fop (166 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 08:10 AM Response to Original message |
19. As Florida and coastlines slip into the sea, the Corporations will protect the Chosen Few. |
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T_i_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 08:20 AM Response to Original message |
22. This is a familiar story here in East Anglia |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 07:32 AM Response to Reply #22 |
42. There's also a lot of sense in it. |
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T_i_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-13-07 02:48 AM Response to Reply #42 |
43. "political stunts from the parish councillors from Lower Hengistbottom" |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-13-07 07:45 AM Response to Reply #43 |
44. "Every reason"? |
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T_i_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-14-07 02:22 AM Response to Reply #44 |
45. No, they have a totally legitimate case |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-14-07 04:33 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. As legitimate as someone who moves next to an airport and complains about the noise ... |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 08:45 AM Response to Original message |
23. I'm afraid that we will have to do something similar |
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Maine-ah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
24. I hate to say this, but |
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MindMatter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 11:16 AM Response to Reply #24 |
29. You can bet that our government |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
25. All climate models show severe loss of coastal areas in the U.S. in the next 30 years. |
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JeanGrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 11:45 AM Response to Reply #25 |
33. Do you have a link to all the climate |
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bikebloke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
26. New Zealand, too |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
34. Why is Holland which is in the same weather and shares the same |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
36. Update from BBC: Coastal defences 'not abandoned' |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
37. We may have to face this in the future? |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 11:50 PM Response to Reply #37 |
41. Holy Crap. ...dats me hale ovah deah by da mango tree..... |
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