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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (23243)	11/11/2008 11:24:11 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

IMHO, they and the Dutch do indeed have a problem. The Maldives is rather worse than the Dutch, because the perimeter to area ratio is worse. The Dutch can afford to have several defense layers and still have plenty of land inside. The Maldives islands are so small in general, that this is not practical. Still, given the Baltic Dry index these days, it would be a good time to buy shiploads of sand from Somalia. Give those pirates a real job, they might stop being naughty. I'd also invest in coral growth research and see if that might not be a cheaper way to add bulk. I know that creationist nutcases have claimed very high coral growth, because if you want to teach creationism in science class, you have to explain how you get thousands of meters of coral stacked on top of each other in only 6000 years. The answer is that coral can grow a meter per year, (at least per the nutcases). IIRC, they conflat the best observed spindly branch type corals with compacted reef deposits, but oh well...