We must learn from sunken cities or suffer their fate | Darran Anderson
by Darran Anderson from on (#WH4M)
The British Museum's Sunken Cities exhibition is a reminder of our future. If we accept that climate change will flood our cities, we can begin to save them
Humans have long sought to understand catastrophes that are sudden and senseless. Faced with ships sailing through tsunami-stricken streets or buildings collapsing in earthquakes, we might take some small bitter comfort from scientific explanations. Irrespective of whether we blame nature, God or the victims, the abrupt cataclysm is at least tangible. How we deal with incremental disaster is less clear. With global warming and rising sea levels, battles between doom-sayers and deniers are, especially at this stage, exercises in futility and inaction.
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