Ashanti Thomas
April 11, 2016
I personally think that should be a responsibility for ALL countries because such a large epidemic like that could begin to effect other surrounding countries if we do not step in and help stop the problem in one place. If other countries just sit back and watch sea level rise and destroy a country it will only get worse for those other countries because as other places are destroyed, they sit back and do nothing about it and contribute to the problem, making it worse for everyone all over the world and causing these problems to occur faster.
In the article “Drowning History: Sea Level Rise Threatens US Historic Sites” it talks about many different historic sites across America that are low-laying by the water, as well as speaking about historic sites all over the country. The article tells you about how all of these historic sites can be ruined or even completely submerged because of sea level rise, if sea level rises only 3 feet it can cause 1.5 billion dollars’ worth of damage to the Statue of Liberty. In Boston the annual amount of floods in the 1070s was only two, in between 2009 and 2013 the amount rose to 11 and could rise to 72 floods a year if sea level would rise to 11 inches. The article also speaks about Newport, Annapolis, and Jamestown, Hawaii, and sites in other countries like South Africa on Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years.
So when sea level rise affects one place or one country it is really effecting all of us, and what really we need to do is rise about these levels and help each other.