Shanghai is sinking!

Maybe it would help if they got rid of the skyscrapers altogether -- they're a bunch of scary looking eye-sores anyway -- as long as they're not homes I think maybe they ought to just scrap them.

That still leaves the global warming problem though. Thailand is on that climate-endangered places list, too.

There's at least one Buddhist monastery/ temple there I've heard about that already has water practically lapping at its doors.

A lot of modern cities will be underwater in a few generations, just as past cities were buried by time waters and sands.... get used to it.
humans have a finite life-span, what the hell should they care? the earth is recovering in its own way, don't fight it, don't even try.

I guess we'll have to call it "Shang-LOW" now, right? HAHAHA...

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... Right, guys?

As you know, Shanghai is a big, big city. Really big. The number of human lives affected by this is astounding.

if they can make a sky line like the one in the pic. then they should be able to figgure this one out then. Venice has been sinking forever. they are doing just fine... replace cars with gondalas and work with what ya got!

This makes me think of the Atlanta, GA 'underground'. There are a few city blocks of turn of the last century storefronts, that are now below 'ground' level. at some point city streets were elevated, and the city modernized above ground, but the below ground portions were ignored. recently it has become a sort of attraction, they reopened the 'underground' and installed lights, etc. It seems to me that it could be possible to 'raise' Shanghi, a few stories, by simply elevating the streets. So what is now ground level would be a basement level, and the first or second floor level would become 'ground; level. Make sense?

Wish this would happen to LANDAN. Ven we could git rid ov orw vu cockernies. Dream on.

Mother nature has her own way of fighting back.

Feh, I'd agree with nature having her own way of fighting back. It's the human's fault for letting themselves be so vulnerable to it. They'd been warned, and they haven't done a thing about it. I'd like to link that to Louisiana, particularily the New Orleans section. They had Katrina, they should have done something better at fixing their mistake. They had a hurricane that didn't hit very hard, but was already testing their defences, that should have set sirens off in peoples minds. They didn't do much to fix up the issues with it. Then they had the next hurricane about a week later (or sooner than that, I forget...), and now look at where they're at now? I suppose with Shanghi sinking, they should be a bit more aware of the enviroment. I'd like to say: "consider this payback"- though... it really isn't my place to say so.

Anyways, they have a problem now that won't fix itself up just because they want it to. They should be dealing with the problem by now, though I wonder how... I doubt a massive migration would be the solution though...

Yet people still act oblivious to what is going on. Let's keep draining the blood of the Earth! Great job guys.

LOOK AT WHATS HAPPENING BEFORE YOUR EYES! WAKE UP PEOPLE!

In the town where I live, the population have inherited a similar problem. Thousands of years ago, the population of the day, discovered salt, in abudance underneath their feet. It was worth more than gold. Then all was quiet for a while. When the population of the World took to the sea`s in the 1700`s, this salt became another " must have " food scource. This salt was then dug out by the 100`s of 1000`s of tons, by hand, by the locals. The immeadiate effect was, subsidence. Worse, it`s still going on. It has recently cost £32, 000, 000 to stop it. It is a first in the world how it`s been done. And it has worked. Perhaps the eminent professors of Shanghi would care to contact this comment, I can give them the web address of the council body. Which ever way, its going to cost a lot of money to either abandon it, or repair the problem.

8,000 skyscrapers have been built in Shanghai in 10 years. A country that can do that can do that has the potential to come up with some incredible solutions.
Unfortunately, sheer population is a large part of all of the problems the country is facing. Energy sources, fresh water, lumber, food. All of these are essential to sustaining a population, and China, along with most of the planet, is starting to see depletion of these at an alarming rate.
It's a like a train with no brakes heading full speed toward a bridge that's being built.
It's going to take a lot of money and a huge percentage of the world's population to drastically change their behaviors really fast to get that bridge finished.
Only time will tell...