If you want to get a sense of the coming impact of rising sea levels caused by global warming, look to Guyana. In 2005, Guyana suffered from massive coastal flooding, due to the fact that sea levels around Guyana have risen almost two feet in the last 50 years. It just so happens that the areas affected by the flooding of 2005 are home to approximately 90 percent of the human population of Guyana.
As sea levels continue to rise because of global warming, Guyana’s population will continue to suffer. If the citizens of the USA do not elect a progressive President in 2008 who is prepared to act to slow down global warming and to deal with the impacts of climate change that are already here, the suffering of people in Guyana will grow much, much worse.
(Source: Reuters, October 12, 2007)
