Nile Delta: 'We are going underwater. The sea will conquer our lands'

The Nile Delta is under threat from rising sea levels. Without the food it produces, Egypt faces catastrophe

"Egypt is a graveyard for occupiers," observes Ramadan el-Atr, a fruit farmer near the antiquated town of Rosetta, where authorities have contracted a Chinese company to build a huge wall of concrete blocks in the ocean to try to save any more land from melting away. "Just like the others, the sea will come and go – but we will always survive."

Scientists aren't so sure. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Aug 25, 2009 - 10:39 PM PDT
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by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 25, 2009

The problems of overpopulation, global climate change, and the rise of the oceans is described in graphic terms in Egypt. The story gives you the feeling of crisis.

The world population is higher than the carrying capacity of the ecosystem. Human overpopulation must reverse.

A 1m rise in the sea level, which many experts think likely within the next 100 years, will cause 20% of the Delta to go underwater. At the other extreme, the 14m rise that ... More »

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