Rising sea levels threaten Taiwan (AFP)

**Cass** · 05-09-2010 05:28 AM

AFP - When worshippers built a temple for the goddess Matsu in south Taiwan 300 years ago, they chose a spot they thought would be at a safe remove from the ocean. They did not count on global warming.

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**nrdthxpr** · 05-09-2010 08:35 AM

Such events are considered a necessary cost of expanding industrial trade around the World. For example, the West Virginia region where uncounted mountains have been leveled and uncounted tons of coal slag cast into what were once clear mountain streams, is called a "national sacrifice area". So, as the population keeps growing everywhere requiring more and more cheap electricity, new "sacrifice areas", including the coast of Taiwan, will be required to keep the global economy growing and growing and growing. Yet, the Earth is not growing. Instead, it is cooling and shrinking, as it has from the beginning. So, their ever-expanding industrial investments have no future.

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