We hear a lot about how to forestall the effects of climate change. Lower your carbon footprints by eating less meat, flying less, changing your light bulbs, and so on until your brain malfunctions. All of this is good. But what if it’s all not enough? It’s possible that if we don’t get our act together, we’ll find ourselves in our worst-case scenario, with sea levels rising beyond our control. I’m not necessarily talking ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ out of control, but enough to drive people out of uninhabitable zones and result in an economic mess. According to the EPA, higher temperatures are expected raise sea levels by expanding ocean water, melting mountain glaciers and ice caps, and causing portions of Greenland and the Antarctic ice sheets to melt. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that the global average sea level will rise between 0.6 and 2 feet in the next century, depending on how things play out. It’s a grim prospect, and not at all an implausible one, as it’s happening to island nations around the world– Tuvalu, the Carteret Islands and the Maldives are already feeling the effects of rising sea levels. And island […]