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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] Okay, I can agree that it's not up to just individuals to decide when it's appropriate to cut and run. I know that it IS possible to beat the elements like Cartman said, and like Siegfried said, there's few places on the planet that are safe from any disaster. But I've got one more point that I didn't think to mention before: global warming. The Siberian permafrost is melting, the Arctic ice cap is melting, the Antarctic ice shelfs are shrinking... it's only a matter of a few decades before the entire sea level starts rising by at least a couple of feet. And when that happens, will any existing levee be enough? If it's only a few inches of additional water, that's one thing, but scientists are talking about the complete melting of the Arctic ice cap within 100 years, and that's going to disturb weather patterns as well as "just" raising the sea level. Combining the problems of hurricanes, the flooding of the Mississippi, the diverting of the river, and especially the "bowl" effect of the terrain, it seems to me (at least) that the region is far too dangerous to have such a large city in that location. Most of it, I think should be moved -- like most of Galveston was moved to Houston. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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