| Excerpts from the yet-unpublished draft of a new | | | | cultural and artistic prospects for some as well. |
| upcoming United Nations report on global warming are | | | | For example, since it is a foregone conclusion that |
| published by the German news magazine Der Spiegel | | | | the water levels will rise and even swallow some of |
| (March 2007). As you can tell, the picture does not | | | | the islands in the oceans, why don't we start working |
| look good. The link between human activity and | | | | on home building and construction technologies based |
| global warming is confirmed yet again. | | | | on stilts and elevated platforms? How can we lift up |
| The numbers and the time we have during which we | | | | existing structures to save them from the rising |
| can counter the slide vary from source to source but | | | | waters? I'm sure that will be a huge growth industry. |
| most experts seem to agree that unless we take | | | | It's also a given that as temperatures rise, our earth |
| drastic measures within the next 30-to-50 years, we | | | | will be a much greener place within the next |
| are doomed as a planet. | | | | 50-to-100 years. Believe it or not, there will be an |
| However, since global warming is a given, why don't | | | | expansion not only in forests but a rise in agricultural |
| we start thinking of the ways in which we can cope | | | | productivity as well. How can we make the best of |
| with this inescapable reality as well as slowing down, | | | | such a gift? Perhaps bio-fuel technology will get a |
| stopping, and eventually perhaps reversing it? | | | | shot in the arm with this unexpected dividend of |
| That would I'm sure mean the growth of new | | | | increased CO2 levels and plant growth. |
| industries and unexpected new business and perhaps | | | | |