Rapid Warming in the Himalaya Exacerbates Geohazard Cascades Beyond Adaptation Limits
Significant progress in adaptation is needed, particularly through strengthened high Himalaya earth observation, hazard monitoring, risk communication and transboundary data and knowledge sharing. But events of this magnitude ultimately exceed the limits of adaptation. Addressing unfolding and imminent loss and damage, through recovery and reconstruction support in impacted communities, has now become an unavoidable part of climate response.
Pretty thorough explanation of the reasons for the Glacial Collapse, but except for Geologists interested in this sort of thing not too helpful. Basically they tell us there are way too many factors and variables involved to be able to make good predictions of where or when it will happen next orr to give sufficient Early Warning for people to get out of the way, and the results are too caatastrphic to "adapt" to. You can't build houses strong enough to withstand mega tons of rock and ice falling on top of them. lol.
What I did find interesting is the population in these neighborhoods is INCREASING! Practically every country in the OECD is shrinking in population, while these guys continue to breed more Homo Saps! I can't imagine the increase comes from people immigrating there. Who's gonna move to an impoverished country where there's barely enough oxygen to support animal life?
Why is the population increasing? Because the arrival of electricity and modern medicine led to longer lifespans, and even just the small income derived from the tourist trade has led to more food availability. Relatively speaking it's still a small population, but instead of the 10K Sherpas living in the area in 1953 when Everest first got climbed, today there's probably 50K. Still tiny, and even if they all get wiped out in the next collapse, it wouldn't even be a rounding error in world population.
Even given the opportunity, I doubt many of the Sherpas would want to leave, so how much rebuilding should there be and who pays for it?
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