Advanced Silver Solution

For the first time in human history, it is said to be possible to circumnavigate the North Pole. 

So what?

Well all the water from that melted ice has to go somewhere.  Sea levels are rising.  

Yeah yeah, read it in the papers, seen a documentary, hasn’t changed my life!

Well are you going to wait until it does effect you before you take it seriously?  The vast majority of the human race live on the big continental land masses where there is plenty of space (now).  But what if you lived on an island that is only just above sea level?  Where would you get fresh water from as the sea claims more and more of your homeland and moves further up your rivers and into your lakes.  What would happen to your crops as high tides flood your farmlands poisoning them with Salt?  

Where would you go?

You can jump into a boat and sail to another country, but would they accept you?  You have no refugee status as your country was not at war.  There has already been many ”boat people” in the past who were rejected by the countries that they fled to.  Many arguments were made that they were just “economic refugees” leaving for a better life in another country.  If an island is completely flooded leaving all crops and water poisoned, can you see other governments being unwilling to submit their own tax payers (voters) to the extra burden and therefore resorting to the same “economic refugee” argument.  After all if the island is still there, aid packages could cost less in the long run and distract from the critics until the issue goes quiet.

This is the possible future facing Islands around the world from the Maldives to Papua New Guinea.  They are already seeing their homeland shrink.  Salt poisoning of water and crops is not just a possible future, it is their present reality.  It is happening now and they are already drawing up evacuation plans.

That is why a number of small island are calling on the UN Security Council to address climate change with the same urgency as it would treat a war.  They are however meeting fierce resistance from the main polluters, so they are looking for as much support as they can get.  That is why they are asking people from all over the world to sign an on-line petition. 

If the sea continues to rise then many more countries will be flooded on every continent.  Countries as diverse as Holland and Bangladesh are quite flat, but densely populated.  There would be mass migrations across borders as people seek out the higher ground.  There is bound to be fighting as some try to obtain higher ground and others try to hold on to it.

Much of the world farmland is on flat low lying plains that would be easily flooded and lost, but there would still be as many people to feed (initially).

Many big cities and industry are based by river estuaries as they give good access to shipping lanes.  They too would be vulnerable, creating economic havoc and displacing many millions of people.

This petition is not just about the peoples of the small islands, it is about all of us, they just happen to be in the front line.  We must support them now before the front line (shore line) moves to us.

Please support the small islands and sign the petition, then send this link to your friends and ask them to do the same.