The Netherlands’s Climate Change Challenge
17.12.2007 NVMSNBC
]AMSTERDAM - One of the lands of the Netherlands, a country with a low altitude, is under the sea level. Therefore, the sea is a continuous threat source for coastal regions. Global warming makes this threat more serious. Because the result of climate changes to global warming is expected to rise 85 cm in the Dutch coast in the next century.
[[T]It is also possible that the three large rivers in the country are flooded and the large flood disasters occur. Recent surveys also reveal that Dutch terrorist attacks have greater threat. [ [This situation pushes the Dutch government to take new measures. One of these measures is the creation of artificial islands in the North Sea to protect coastal regions. Even in the day of a lale-shaped island with the symbol of the Netherlands.
The Dutch Parliament authorized a commission for project research. The Christian Democrat politician Joop Atsma, who pioneered the work carried out to provide support to the project in the Parliament, says the promotion of the country of the lale island will also contribute.
[Request Emergency Solution For Agriculture Industry
It needs urgently new soils of the Dutch. Land prices in the country where 485 people live in a kilometer are rising rapidly. This situation damages the agricultural sector.
The third country that exports the most agricultural product is afraid of losing this position of the Netherlands. Dutch authorities discuss that agriculture areas will be created on the island will be a good solution to this problem.
] Ecological Deterioration Alert on the North Sea]
[But there are some warnings of the peripheralsbecause the North Sea is not a desert where you can easily build what you want. North Sea is very rich in ecologically; even one of the most fertile waters in the world. If you are building a island in this region, sea creatures, migrant birds and ecological system damage.
The cost of the project is also another criticism. Joop Atsma defends that the return of the project is more than the lead.
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]The water raids of the Netherlands and the fight against sea is very old. In 1300 years, the windmills were used for the evacuation of water in low-cuts. Around 2 thousand people in floods in 1953 were built in the world’s largest construction projects. [email protected]
The Dutch began to export this technology. For example, palm-shaped island Dutch engineers in Dubai sign. The U.S. authorities also applied to the help of Dutch experts for the evacuation of waters in New Orleans after Katrina tayfun in 2005. [
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