Nature vs. nurture: What's driving erosion in West Africa? | DW News

[@CastroNRH]

The professor gave us great explanation. Climate change may be a factor, but as well as in other areas around the world, the land management of sorrounding areas can be the main factor of coastal erosion. If the river Volta can't put sediments into the sea, there will be less sands on the shorelines.

[@speicaldark]

South Asia has similar problems in many places, too

[@WouldntYaKnowIt]

Bring the mangroves back to the edge of the sea.

[@snowice4354]

You are not alone...

[@karkinos3836]

Same will happen to Florida if not worse

[@e4t662]

That's true, north America's southern coasts are extremely vulnerable.

[@terrymoore861]

The crustal slip caused by the current pole shift is moving Ghana to the geographical equator, the highest bulge point of the ocean. Once Ghana has crossed the equator, sea level will fall. Sadly, Florida, also moving towards the ocean bulge at the equator will see much higher sea level rise as it has a long way to go. The trees in the Florida Keys have already been killed by the rising salt water following crustal slip. Any country will low level coast line moving towards the geographical equator. See also the coastal erosion of low lying northern coastlines of Australia.

[@Maplelust]

Florida is screwed yes.

[@berthybuah4871]

Great discussion. Prof good one there.

[@Bluei720]

Dams on the volta don't help either by trapping the sediments in their reservoirs.

[@robyunger6853]

There is a doc about the damage that is done by dredging ships, for building and construction projects. The massive amount of sand these ships are dredging just offshore, seem to be causing problems in other areas as well. I wonder if this could be a factor here.

[@eugaleksandr]

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[@Thor101101]

hey cut all the trees and roots away and are surprised the ocean takes the sand

[@markgarin6355]

Seems they should move to higher ground...or build sea walls

[@ItIsGonnaGetWayWorse]

Idk? All the garbage and chemicals we ship over there?

[@Richard-cq4kv]

Water

[@trmon8890]

Can the obtain some old tankers and start building artificial refs? This has been done in other parts of the world with great success

[@LuckyLucky-xp2sz]

What is that man talking about? Who told him people are building close to the sea? These are people familty lands that has been so many miles away from the sea for manany many centuries. Erosion meantion it has eraded the land to meet the people. And this has been happening for centuries. What makes him think people only started building houses there? My family land is now so many miles into the sea because the sea has taken it over. Look at this hinterland Akan who knows nothing about the coast and calls himself an expert. These are family lands being washed away. So many families have lost their Family lands so many miles into the sea over the years because there was no care in the world for coastal volta. Ada has been protected so well but Ewe land has been neglicted because of tribal hatred for Ewe people. Not because Ewes have done anything wrong but just because of pure hatred. The hate Akans have been raised with is what is worsening our situatuion. I hope your come back on to this earth again and find yourselves in various parts of the world were you will be hated for no reason maybe you will know what you came to do in this life previous lives of yours. Hateful people.

[@RoccosVideos]

Sea level rise doesn’t discriminate

[@terrymoore861]

Pole shift does not discriminate. The crustal slip caused by the current pole shift is moving Ghana to the geographical equator, the highest bulge point of the ocean. Once Ghana has crossed the equator, sea level will fall. Sadly, Florida, also moving towards the ocean bulge at the equator will see much higher sea level rise as it has a long way to go. The trees in the Florida Keys have already been killed by the rising salt water following crustal slip. Any country will low level coast line moving towards the geographical equator. See also the coastal erosion of low lying northern coastlines of Australia.

[@terrymoore861]

@@yourstruly4817 Strange, must have been asleep for a few hundred thousand years....Has Nepal sunk and has a coast line now?

[@terrymoore861]

@@yourstruly4817 Thank goodness....

[@KJSvitko]

Climate Change will impact everyone. You can not hide from it. Stop burning fossil fuels.

[@James-gu3vo]

Hot lava ...to Hawaii....hum

[@rohit30584]

If all the earth's ice melts, it will raise the ocean's height by 70mtr.

[@rohit30584]

@@MadnessMotorcycle all the o2 is inside the ice. Didn't knew that.

[@KasperHaake]

No that doesn’t work

[@terrymoore861]

The tip of Argentina/Chile and Siberia are getting colder and colder as a result of crustal slip caused by the pole shift. As Northern Russia and China approach the geographical north pole, the immense land mass will accululate more and more frozen snow, forming many more glaciers over a huge area. This will cause sea levels to fall. Remember the geographical history when the North Sea almost disappeared!

[@rohit30584]

@@terrymoore861 never heard about the pole shift in news.

[@robertmuller5039]

U must be Einstein

[@Ufu4847]

Ukraine is also being eroded.

[@_genova6230]

"Maybe west africa isnt being eroded maybe we'er the one that are unroded" Jaden Smith(hishighnesstheone)

[@mattbehari5939]

just think while we talk about global warming, our universe rapidly expanding so the future generations will talk about deep freeze

[@stevenk6638]

Sure ... global warming demands that sea level rise be another symptom of our impending doom, however : perhaps the land is settling slightly ?

[@goldenfury7231]

Stop. Settling??? Billions of years old and it's just now Settling... smh

[@Malkava24]

Eventually nature will takeover.

[@terrymoore861]

The crustal slip caused by the current pole shift is moving Ghana to the geographical equator, the highest bulge point of the ocean. Once Ghana has crossed the equator, sea level will fall. Sadly, Florida, also moving towards the ocean bulge at the equator will see much higher sea level rise as it has a long way to go. The trees in the Florida Keys have already been killed by the rising salt water following crustal slip. Any country will low level coast line moving towards the geographical equator. See also the coastal erosion of low lying northern coastlines of Australia.

[@freespiritable]

Interesting. But they harvest sediments from the rivers so there's no sediment deposit in the delta. That's a direct factor as well.

[@kwesigyamfi5325]

🔥

[@Bke14151]

Wow

[@paulwarren796]

END THE DETROITLIONS & PSITONS & TAKE HALF OF THE MNEY THEY MADE TO PAY FOR CAUSES LIKE THIS . PWW

[@robertmuller5039]

Simple solution. MOVE.

[@Mooooty]

Move them all to the USA

[@mudball47]

I bet a couple billion dollars from richer nation will make it better? I guess that is what your after.

[@goldenfury7231]

It's you're... = you are asking for. Maybe ask for an education

[@selom6139]

it's called news, if you don't understand what it is, why are you here?.