tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437377958282996862.post2987097678735998724..comments2023-12-01T23:15:04.721-08:00Comments on The view from Brittany: Rising tidesDamien Perrotinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509005954914591838noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437377958282996862.post-52630046553857716932010-03-27T11:53:08.401-07:002010-03-27T11:53:08.401-07:00I have the same question as Richard; why are the s...I have the same question as Richard; why are the sea walls so expensive! If they date from Napoleonic times shouldn't they be maintainable with a similar level of mostly human powered tech? Politically that's a tough sell but as things continue it will become more likely.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05637664210265433149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437377958282996862.post-64099091584917642772010-03-24T07:13:09.532-07:002010-03-24T07:13:09.532-07:00Why are sea walls so expensive?Why are sea walls so expensive?Richard Eisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437377958282996862.post-50670515003837253362010-03-21T18:27:25.665-07:002010-03-21T18:27:25.665-07:00Another American Midwesterner posting here, from C...Another American Midwesterner posting here, from Chicago.<br /><br />The U.S. is the country that has the most redundant infrastructure that will need to be abandoned, but instead we have elected to bankrupt the country and make the entire population a slave to maintaining increasingly obsolete infrastructure that only spurs sprawl development and makes more people vulnerable as the net energy available to us decreases. <br /><br />I speak, of course, of our 5.7 million miles on high-speed, limited access highways, and the fantastic Colorado River plumbing system of about 30 large and ultra-large (over 600 ft high)dams that make it possible for cities of 4 Million people to blossom on the high desert, while Midwestern, Eastern, and Mid-South cities built on major waterways depopulate and crumble. Cities like Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis, Rochester, Cleveland, Newark, Baltimore, Atlanta, and Cincinnati were born 200 years ago and sensibly located close to fresh water supplies and water transport. But we have destroyed these places in order to build evermore interstate highways to suburbs, and mega-dams in the desert states- things we will not be able to maintain on our way down the slope. Yet these are the things our recent "stimulus" package allocated most of our money to sustaining, at the expense of about 67%of the population and 75% of the economic activity in this country.The North Coasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14292115710427172625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437377958282996862.post-84311353409619463502010-03-16T02:09:57.838-07:002010-03-16T02:09:57.838-07:00Galacticsurfer, yes, it was a very touristic area ...Galacticsurfer, yes, it was a very touristic area on a very touristic island, which definitely had an influence upon the events. Homes are very expensive in the area and proposals to limit building in threatened areas were not going to be popular.<br /><br />Inhabiting areas under sea level is an old habit in Europe and not necessarily a bad one - look at the Netherlands, for instance - but it requires good maintenance of the infrastructures, something which will be in short supply in the future.<br /><br />Dltrammel, you are welcome. The Midwest won't be submerged anytime soon. Watch for drought, however. It was a desert during the last interglacial periodDamien Perrotinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01509005954914591838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437377958282996862.post-67608250059755177822010-03-14T14:11:18.853-07:002010-03-14T14:11:18.853-07:00Living in the midwest of the US as I do, encroachi...Living in the midwest of the US as I do, encroaching sea levels won't affect me. I am though watching the possibility of spring flooding. Luckily I'm meters above any area that might flood.<br /><br />It will slowly get worse as time goes on, I'm sure. Thanks for the euro prospective, it's very informative.dltrammelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01554126580069302931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437377958282996862.post-22374319442466674942010-03-12T05:28:56.144-08:002010-03-12T05:28:56.144-08:00I was in La Faut sur Mer the summer before last wi...I was in La Faut sur Mer the summer before last with my family for two weeks on vacation. I see that the whole village is under water and 26 people died. This is the rice for loving beaches and living on the ocean. The weather can change so quickly. Even as we were there a storm brewed up very quickly. Looking at the villagfe on the google maps I see that it is like an island surrounded by water. We were on the street Rue des Nereides. behind the house were dikes which people took walks on and we had to walk a kilometer to the beach. The houses were mostly rented to tourists or used when the owners themselves were on vacation as I understand. But I suppose lots of pensioners/retirees were living there year round.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com