Easy fix on rising seas
WITH the forbearance of Queensland’s best letters page’s editors, I’d like to respond to resident wrongologist, Steve of Belgian Gardens ( TB, 13/7).
Steve, lifting buildings is quite straightforward. Search Wikipedia for “Raising of Chicago”. During the 1850s and 1860s, low-lying central Chicago was raised several feet – buildings, roads, the lot – to allow drainage to be installed below.
Massive brick buildings, six stories high, covering over an acre, weighing 35,000 tons, were lifted using jackscrews and manual labour – while business carried on as usual inside – 160 years ago.
So Steve, relax, if your house is a foot above sea level now, you have 203 years to lift it another foot to maintain the separation. Same with airport infrastructure, port buildings, and dyke construction.
Steve, sea-level rises are not going to create any unsolvable problems anywhere on Earth, and the ongoing efforts of the political Left to manufacture a fake panic about this complete non-issue is quite revealing.
It reveals that the Left don’t respect facts. A functional society cannot be built or sustained on falsehoods. If seas were going to rise catastrophically, we’d need the hard facts to respond to that threat, and we’d respond by building dykes and lifting buildings, roads, and bridges.
Instead we have the Left continually running around cackling about the sky falling, and frightening the kiddies and the grannies, with what are, to be blunt, lies, falsehoods, fabrications, and fairy stories.
Every solution the Left propose for their fictional impending catastrophes involves dismantling capitalism – the only system to have ever lifted people out of poverty, slavery, and misery – and replacing it with socialism,