On a different note, what if borders or even countries disappear
because of the RISING sea level?
This is apparently a real problem, see the Earth Policy Institute at
http://earth-policy.org/Updates/Update2.htm
The country of Tuvalu is being evacuated. Apart from the human
tragedy of having to abandon your country I'm wondering about legal
and political implications:
Will Tuvalu keep its sovereignty over its territorial waters, even
when all the islands are gone? Will it have a status similar to the
Order of Malta: citizens w/ passports, embassies, but no land?
I don't believe anything even remotely similar has happened before.
greetings,
Anton Z.
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., orc@o... wrote:
> it strikes me as almost inconceivable that any of our present
international boundaries
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> of which few to none are more than about 7 centuries old
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> & most are scarcely 1 century old
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> could survive until the next glaciation
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> i can however imagine some to many of them surviving the present
phase of global warming
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> & thus projecting maritime boundary termini inland
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> so to say
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> for they would of course always remain perfectly wet
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> but please anton
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> how can you even be curious about what might happen to our existing
boundaries myriads & chiliads of years from now
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> idle curiosity i could understand
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> but this is freakin otiose
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> m
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Anton Sherwood <bronto@p...> wrote:
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> > I wonder how many sea boundaries would creep onto land (other
than at
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> > their endpoints, i mean) if the sea drops in an ice age. It
seems to me
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> > that for most purposes you'd want the boundary to be in the
deepest
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> > water: so that future big ships can navigate in either state, and
so
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> > that the shallow water (most useful for aquaculture) is neatly
divided.
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> > If I were asked to draw a boundary at sea, and if I had good
information
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> > about the shape of the seafloor, I'd imagine that the sea has
gone dry
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> > and a river flows down from the land boundary; let that river be
the sea
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> > boundary. Where that solution is inadequate -- e.g. Bahrain --
drop the
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> > sea until the two landmasses `kiss', and then run rivers down
each side
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> > from that saddle point.
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> > (One flaw in this `solution' is that the boundaries of The
Gambia, for
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> > example, would likely converge rather close to shore.)
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> > --
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> > Anton Sherwood