United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that Bangkok will go underwater as low-lying communities and entire countries disappear under rising seas.
According to Al Jazeera, Guterres warned of the threat posed by rising sea levels to hundreds of millions of people living in low-lying coastal areas and small island states as new data reveals seas have risen rapidly since 1900.
Bangkok will go underwater through shocking inaction
Guterres said countries such as Thailand, Bangladesh, and the Netherlands were threatened by the devastating loss of land with big cities such as Bangkok, London, and Shanghai set to disappear completely. Shockingly, this was the first UN Security Council debate on rising sea levels.
Guterres said…
“The danger is especially acute for nearly 900 million people who live in coastal zones at low elevations — that’s one out of 10…
