Thursday, August 9, 2012

Climate Change Adaptations: How To Prepare For Global Warming

Global warming is a crises that is becoming more and more evident that it needs to be taken care of in the next years, or else we could be facing serious consequences in the next several decades. I don't know for a fact on how big of an impact the warming of our climate will have, whether it's 1 degree warmer ocean water or complete islands being submerged by raising ocean levels. 

This article brings in a very drastic view of what global warming will end up causing if not taken care of immediately. Listing off measures of floating farms, underwater houses, underground cities, and climate adaptable crops. The author Jeremy Hsu believes apparently that we will either need houses that can function underwater if positioned near the coast, or cities built underground in order to be protected from unpredictable severe weather and solar rays. The article seemed like hogwash to me. I believe in global warming and I do believe it is a threat to our existence on earth, but I do not believe that our race is in such danger of these things happening in the next few decades.

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  1. AnonymousAugust 9, 2012 at 9:57 PM

    I would agree with your reasoning. The magnitude by which the author speaks is too high to really believe when the changes have been small, even though it did take a lot of heat to heat up the entire world even if it was only about 1° or so.
    Perhaps this will happen in the future, but nearly as soon as he implies. I think we can sleep soundly for the next few years before there really is a problem.

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  2. Joseph DaileyAugust 9, 2012 at 11:17 PM

    What you're saying about the issue makes senseKip, but I think that the author was probably bringing a radical argument to the conversation in order to evoke any kind of response from his readers. The thing that bothers me the most concerning this issue is the constant and inconclusive debate concerning global warming. People from either side of the argument are getting pretty heated over the issue and not much is done in order to try and come to some sort of a consensus. Whether or not the world is going to turn into a fireball that we must excavate for shelter is beyond me. Whether or not human beings are contributing to the deterioration of our planet and it's resources is undeniable. Let those who want to build underwater houses build underwater houses and those who want to act like nothing is wrong act like nothing is wrong. The fact of the matter is that the rest of us have to do something to try and better our relationship with the earth before whatever happens, be it resource depletion or global warming, happens.

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