This is the way that the world ends, not with a bang but a quiet drowning.
Rising seas, fueled by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth, a UK newspaper reports.
The Independent says the loss of Lohachara Island, once home to 10,000 people, in the Bay of Bengal marks the moment when one of the most apocalyptic predictions of environmentalists and climate scientists has started coming true.
And as the seas rise, we continue to slaughter each other for the oil that is burning up the world.
Posted by Deck at December 24, 2006 09:13 PM