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There is a lot of research on climate change. However, countries are doing very little to reduce pollution. They are not reacting at all to the clear data pointing to damage caused to the planet by humans.

In the Antarctic the latest evidence shows some movement in the ice "plug" holding massive amounts of ice back from the ocean. If this plug fails, ice will slide into the sea raising the planet's water level by many meters, permanently. Cities on the coast around the world will be flooded.

It was thought that only the western side of the Antarctic was in danger of raising sea level. It now appears that the eastern side where the plug is situated is also at risk.

The weather in the US has been extremely erratic over the last ten years. The cost to the nation is in the billions of dollars. Insurance companies will react as they have done in Australia. Premiums have more than doubled in recent years. Some areas of Australia cannot get insurance cover at all for their homes because they are seen as low-lying or at high risk in bush fires.

Climate change is ongoing and people are at risk of losing everything in a chain of catastrophes. The world economic system will be affected. It cannot be avoided. We ignore it now at our own peril.

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Australia could return to what it was millions of years ago - a cluster of islands covering a gigantic area. The continent is very flat. Mountains only occur on the east coast. With rising sea level, first to go will be the large cities on the coast. These are the major population centers.

After this, an inland sea will form. There is no doubt that the Poles are melting. This water has to go somewhere. The population will fall by 80 per cent. Even if many flee inland, there are no water and food resources there to feed everyone, unless of course Aboriginal culture still remains. Most Aboriginals today are urbanized and have lost much of the their culture.

This will not be a solely Australian problem. Most major cities in the world are on the coast, growing from estuaries where a large river flows into the sea.

On the Gold Coast, high rise building are only meters from an unpredictable sea. After storms, councils are called upon to repair the damage with money they don't have. In a short time these buildings will have to be abandoned as councils condemn them as being too dangerous to live in.

There is no immediate worry because the rise in ocean level will be steady. This will give people time to move out. There will be great financial loss to the nation though. Natural disasters just consume GDP. Nothing is produced from them. In fact resources are drawn away from productive projects.