Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131112:08:25:00
The ocean. this cannot be stressed enough. >> and it's rising. that's the other element. so, there's this climate change piece of greater storms, sea level rise in the future. we also see more people moving to some of these vulnerable areas. in the philippines, population growth rates of close to 2%. more people moving to some of these mega cities like manila and other coastal areas. as you extract more groundwater with these large populations, you're actually seeing in a lot of these deltas the land sinking as well, so it's a double whammy. not only sea level rise due to increasing greenhouse...
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