A short follow up post today with a very important video building on last week's post. The video below shows quite how dangerous SLR could be to low-lying islands. It aims to raise awareness of this creeping menace that is very difficult to stop.
For an assessment of the potential effects of implicating mitigation strategies Tol, 2007 provides an interesting suggestion of the possible costs by 2100. Low-lying islands such as Kiribati feature highly in spending as a percentage of GDP and percentage of land at risk of SLR. The main feature of the paper is the assertion that money is better spent on adaptation rather than purely trying to block SLR, and in the long term this can greatly reduce cost that damage caused by SLR would cause.
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