sea level rise

Solve sea level rise with collective grassroots action! Just store the water somewhere BESIDES the sea. So simple!

Aug 22, 2022

Environment

collective action, global warming, sea level, sea level rise, water cube, water tank, waterworld

Background: Increased global average temperatures may lead to increased sea levels. This could be a problem for coastal regions, but perhaps we can all do our part to mitigate sea level rise by storing the water elsewhere. The Issue: We have the following numbers (Fig 1): If we want to be prepared for the 0.5-meter…
Don’t believe the lies of “Big Ichthyology”—save our cities from flooding by vanquishing our ancient foes of the briny deep. Maybe the only problem with overfishing was… we didn’t do enough of it???

Jul 16, 2018

Beasts, Environment

coastal flooding, fishing, flooding, overfishing, sea level rise, squid vs whale, the ending to the original Planet of the Apes, the squid, the whale

The issues: Let us consider two economic / environmental problems that should, in an ideal world, be addressed somehow: Sea level rise (see Figure 1) Overfishing Obviously no one has any plans to actually address these; the “tragedy of the commons” will sort them out naturally. But what if we did want to make a difference,…