Photographic Evidence

Aotea is located near south of Raglan, New Zealand. These two photos are both taken in the same place above the same house. The first was taken in 2/1/1965. The second was taken in 25/8/2013. Comparing the two, anyone can see that the sea levels have risen and a combination of that and erosion has lead to the land reducing size. A fair chunk of the land has been eroded and a house is gone along with the surrounding bush.

                       

                                                      Picture taken from Google Maps

No matter what people say is the cause of the change, with this, no one can deny that sea levels are rising and that the land is falling away as sea levels continue to do so. Imagine what Whitianga could look like if the same happened here.

Image from Whitianga Waterways - Teara

This may be the final post for this blog. The purpose of this blog is for people to make people aware that sea levels are rising and invoke action among the community. For those who read it, I hope this blog helps!

How Can We Give Whitianga a Sustainable Future?

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.