Le erosion del litores de partes de Anglaterra…

(Languages of this post: Interlingua, English)

Le erosion del litores de partes de Anglaterra es un grande problema, le qual va a devenir progressivemente plus sever con le calefaction global. In Hornsea in Yorkshire, decenas de metros de su costa pote disapparer in un sol lapso de terra.

Pro centenares de annos le ingenieros de Anglaterra ha luctate contra iste problema. Le angleses habeva un tradition de combatter lor inundationes oceanic mesmo in the in le Etate Medie. Lor ingenieros medieval erigeva un muro pro luctar contra le oceano a Lyme Regis in le seculo dece tertie.

Le victorianos habeva multe fide in lor proprie ingenieros e construeva diverse muros contra le oceano, ma lor effortios ha providite le angleses solmente con protection provisori. Illes credeva que lor muros poterea proteger partes del costa anglese in perpetuo, ma iste muros nunc se rende progressivemente al assaltos del oceano.

Nunc le angleses comencia a recognoscer le inevitabile e ha inaugurate un politica de gradualmente abandonar le plus periculose del regiones menaciate per le oceano. Finalmente illes ha recognoscite que il ha limites a lo que lor ingenieros pote facer. Le hollandeses, il pare, totevia non ha recognoscite le limites de lo que lor proprie ingenieros pote accomplir.

E in le Statos Unite, le reconstruction de New Orleans continua. Quasi omne New Orleans, como grande partes de Hollanda, ha essite construite sur terra sub le nivello del mar. E mesmo Long Beach, California, ubi io vive, eventualmente suffrera le depredationes del Oceano Pacific. Ma al etate de septanta annos, io morira ante que iste problema devenira vermente serie. Infelicemente, tosto nos debera confrontar un altere problem serie: le siccitate chronic. Welcome to the Hotel Calfornia!

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The erosion of the shorelines of parts of England is a big problem that is going to become progressively more severe with global warming. The English had a tradition of combatting their oceanic floods even in the Middle Ages. Their medieval engineers built a wall to fight the ocean at Lyme Regis in the thirteenth century.

The Victorians had a lot of faith in their own engineers and constructed several walls against the sea, but their efforts have provided the English with only temporary protection. They thought that their walls could protect parts of the English coast forever, but these walls are now progressively yielding to the assaults of the ocean.

Now the English are starting to recognize the inevitable and have begun a policy of gradually abandoning the most dangerous of the regions menaced by the ocean. They have finally recognized that there are limits to what their engineers can do. The Dutch, it seems, have not yet recognized the limits of what their own engineers can accomplish.

And in the United States, the reconstruction of New Orleans continues. Almost all of New Orleans, like large parts of Holland, have been built on land below sea level. And even Long Beach, California, where I live, will eventually suffer the depredations of the Pacific Ocean. But at the age of seventy, I will be dead before this problem becomes really serious. Unfortunately, we will soon have to face another serious problem: chronic drought. Welcome to the Hotel California!