Sea levels are rising, and this is a problem, and there are other problems but this is still a problem, and this is a problem we can solve.
Currently, the Washington Post is telling me sea levels are supposed to rise by about a foot over the next 30 years, or 1/5,280th of a mile. With the ocean’s surface area measuring 63.8 million square miles, this means we’re set to pick up an additional 12,000 cubic miles of water. I think. Possible I did the math wrong, but if I did just go back through this, scientists, and fix the math but apply the same solution to the problem.
We need to dig a 12,000-cubic-mile hole in the ocean.
It’s simple. If you want water in your sink to be lower, you let some of it go lower. Same with the bathtub. Same with the puddle outside caused by you clogging the storm drain with free student newspapers you took from those weird boxes over on campus with the plexiglass doors. Want water to go away? Give it somewhere to go. In this case, a 12,000-cubic-mile hole.
“That’s too big of a hole,” you say, but do you really think that in that great barren graveyard for Malaysian Airlines jets which we call the Indian Ocean, there isn’t space for a 120x100x1-mile hole? Plus, there’d be more land, because we could build a 120×100-mile island somewhere the ocean’s only three quarters of a mile deep. And with that, the price of land would drop, easing inflation.
Again, this doesn’t solve all the problems, but I think we just solved a pretty big one. Also the inflation thing. Don’t sleep on the inflation thing.
