A US study has revealed the dramatic effects that climate change will have on the planet in the coming years, including increasing water levels in the world, which will lead to the disappearance and sinking of dozens of cities around the world, including the Egyptian city of Alexandria and Iraqi Basra;
She told The New York Times that the study, published by the New Climate Organization, is a scientific organization based in New Jersey and published by the journal Nature Communications.
More than 150 million people living in coastal cities around the world are at real risk by 2050 due to rising sea levels; the disappearance of these areas from the map.
The maps accompanying the research showed that more cities, whether in Asia, Africa or the Americas, were drowned by a significant rise in sea levels.
One of the hardest-hit cities is Vietnam; more than 20 million people, almost a quarter of the population, now live in areas that will be below sea level by 2050, and Ho Chi Minh City, the country's economic hub, will disappear. 10% of the population in areas will be below the high tide, with the projected disappearance of the country's most important commercial center, Bangkok.
Basra, Iraq's second largest city, could be affected and become submerged by 2050.If this happens, its effects will reach beyond Iraq's borders, according to John Castellao, a retired Marine Corps officer who was chief of staff of the US Central Command during the Iraq war. .
"Climate change will put pressure on cities in a number of ways and farmers are now starting to look for alternative places," said Loretta Heber Gerardit, a Bangkok resident and UN official for disaster risk reduction.
The rising sea level threatens to swallow the heart and center of Shanghai, Asia's most important economic engine, and the surrounding small cities.
The new data show that 110 million people are already living in places at risk of removal, and the author of the study, Dr. Strauss suggests, should take preventive measures such as the construction of sea walls and other barriers. “Cities need to invest much more money in building such barriers,” he said.
Dr. Strauss spoke of the city below sea level, New Orleans, which was destroyed in 2005 when dams and other protections during Hurricane Katrina failed to protect them from drowning.
The study suggested that migration from rising seas and oceans could lead to regional conflicts.
The study did not explain the projections of future population growth or the amount of the rest of the land lost due to the erosion of the coasts. Buildings.