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...pronounced, coastal areas ever more severely eroded by rising seas and rainfall scarcer on agricultural land. But if the rise is significantly larger, the result could be disastrous. With seas rising as much as 88 cm, enormous areas of densely populated land - coastal Florida, much of Louisiana, the Nile Delta, the Maldives, Bangladesh - would become uninhabitable. Entire climatic zones might shift dramatically. Agriculture would be thrown into turmoil. Hundreds of millions of people would have to migrate out of unlivable regions...
...must stop to obtain permission to cross the border, either from the immigration office ($1) or the Sekong Hotel ($20, but hassle-free). The last three hours to the border are by outboard-powered dug-out. The going is slow but the pace affords fine views of the delta at its most pristine. The thick jungle harbors flocks of parrots, egrets and electric-blue kingfishers, while the banks are lined with tree roots twisted by monsoon floods into banyan shapes...
...maybe too bad that the airlines have decided to get into the act. Orbitz, an online travel web site funded by the five major U.S. airlines - United, Delta, Continental, Northwest and American (or, where applicable, their corporate parents) - is now set for a launch in June after the Department of Transportation said Friday it would not stand in the service...
...rise is significantly larger, the result could be disastrous. With seas rising as much as 3 ft., enormous areas of densely populated land--coastal Florida, much of Louisiana, the Nile Delta, the Maldives, Bangladesh--would become uninhabitable. Entire climatic zones might shift dramatically, making central Canada look more like central Illinois, Georgia more like Guatemala. Agriculture would be thrown into turmoil. Hundreds of millions of people would have to migrate out of unlivable regions...
...lied to by a Delta representative and he told me I couldn’t get on my plane...