an hour agoBangkok can sink until 2030
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Sea-level growth, coastal erosion and Gallopan urbanization, for Bangkok, which awaits a meeting for COP-24 on September, the UN's next climate conference, is sinking it over and over again, and until 2030, a part of it could be underwater. “I built in swamps that are five feet [1.5 m] [...]
“built in swamps that are five feet [1.5 m] above sea level, this metropolis of more than ten million inhabitants sinks one to two inches per year and threatens to face powerful floods in the near future”, says Tara Buacmisri, director of “Grenpeace Thailand”.
During the great floods of 2011, more than one fifth of the city was flooded, where the peripheral areas were most affected while business areas were saved thanks to dams that were immediately established.
A scenario that is expected to occur more and more frequently. Nearly 40% of the city can be flooded by 2030, according to World Bank predictions that classify the metropolis as one of the most endangered in Asia along with Jakarta.
Bangkok, “a obez city with the skeleton of a child”, according to the expression of geologist Thanawat Jakugongsack, is originally the victim of its rampant development. The weight of the skyscrapers, who do not stop growing toward the sky in a constant transformation, is causing an ongoing shipwreck.
While the many channels that described the capital, once called Venice of Orient, have largely disappeared, covered by a giant road network. In fact, they constituted a very good natural drain system”, says Suppatorn Chinvanno, climate expert at Bangkok's “Chulalongkran”. / ATSH/
