Unlike temporary floods, that only wash buried pollutants to sea/river systems episodicaly and locally, Sea Level Rise will simultaneously flood ALL lowlands.
Developed Nations have vast areas of contaminated land and have been burying toxics in their own lowlans and those of their colonies'/client states. Chemical and radioactive wastes, landfills, cemeteries, waste dumps, animal and plague pits (organism's notional life: 1000 yrs) etc.
What will happen as sea water SIMULTANEOUSLY infiltrates, dissolves, washes out at each tide, GLOBALLY, and recirculates them all over ALL of the world's coasts, before washing them out to sea?
What are the chances of preventing a mass extinction of most marine AND many terrestrial species of the wet margin, by gradual bioaccumulation in the trophic webs?
CAN Developed Nations [intent on hedonistic lifestyles, mindless trivia, hyper-expansion and Neolithic religious wars] prevent Bio-Armageddon?
WILL THEY?
Can WE?
2006-10-11
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