An International Problem to a Sustainable Future
A Sustainable Future is something that most of us want, but we have challenges and obstacles to face in order to achieve it. Some stare us openly in the face while others are more discreet and creep up on us, so that by the time they are a major problem to us, we have done nothing to prepare for them. This blog is about one of those discreet problems.
The sea makes up most of the world, a good 70% of it. But the time when we could live in the sea was millions of years ago. Nowadays, we have to live on land. With a growing population, we are consistently filling that 30% of land each year. Rising sea levels could cause us some problems especially for a small town like Whitianga where a majority of the town resides on the beachfront.
An ad for Mountain Dew said "You want to get to easy? Ok. There are no shortcuts. To get to easy you have to go through hard." This can actually be applied for this situation. It won't happen overnight and it won't happen without hard work or cost.
If we want a sustainable future, land where we can still live on then we have to start thinking about what we can do to make sure that it happens.
