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To: Slagle who wrote (22148)	9/8/2007 5:42:05 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218173

What is strange is the worry about sea level rise as though it would happen tomorrow before breakfast. Over a period of 100 years, there is little of value that would be taken by the sea rising a metre [which is the current expert climatologist theory of what will happen = at the deep end]. To worry about some buildings, road, sewerage, which will get wet over those 100 years is odd. New sewerage can be built and I guess will be, with on-site disposal increasingly popular to save money [huge government sewerage schemes are expensive]. Sewerage was developed because cholera, typhoid fever etc were very bad and people had no means of disposal other than chucking it in the street. Now, technology could easily dispose of waste on site, with dry waste going to power stations, composting or landfills. That would save the cost of loads of piping. Roads are replaced or renovated several times in 100 years. Old roads could be left to go underwater, perhaps recycling the bitumen and aggregate where economic. Anyway, roads will be superconductor levitated and propelled self-navigating systems controlled by photo-electronic computers. There won't be any SUVs. People will have migrated to all sorts of places too. Maybe Africa will get a huge renaissance for more equitable climate than Mongolia or Sweden [the Swedes will get a melanin DNA transplant to avoid burning]. 100 years is a very long time in human terms. That's a few generations. Not many of us even live that long. Few haven't moved house over 100 years. But never let's forget the real worry, which is sudden water level rise due to bolide [or large earth movements such as the Canary Islands threat]. Mqurice