Does democracy have a future?

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 26 Jan 2015, 08:35

BritDownUnder wrote: They have been expanding Shanghai across what was fertile farmland judging by the mud that is around our site.

And isn't much of this new building land very close to sea level?

BritDownUnder · Post by **BritDownUnder** » 26 Jan 2015, 12:02

biffvernon wrote:
BritDownUnder wrote: They have been expanding Shanghai across what was fertile farmland judging by the mud that is around our site.
And isn't much of this new building land very close to sea level?

Yes it is very flat there. Full of canals to drain away all the water. Could be the fens if it wasn't the most populous city on earth and full of Chinese. Under the sea in 100 years.

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 26 Jan 2015, 17:27

That long??

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 26 Jan 2015, 20:47

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/01/ ... ea-levels/

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 04 Feb 2015, 11:52

kenneal - lagger wrote:A corporatocracy will take us to the old Soviet Union or present day China as far as pollution is concerned with no environmental safeguards and poison dumped all over the place. You just have to look at the USA to see where it would go: mountain top removal with tailings dams bursting into water courses all over the place; coal fired power stations belching sulphurous smoke into the atmosphere

The 'old' Soviet Union? See here: Russia to construct $530mn coal port in Far East

The first coal should be shipped in three years time, with throughput starting at about 6 million tons, and reaching full capacity [20 million tons] by 2025.

Ah, reading further, it seems all will be well! The biosphere is safe. For instance:

The port will be eco-friendly as the coal trucks will be unloaded indoors and the terminals will have added dust control technology

Phew, that's a relief.