Dolphin Address 03
January 14th 2007
As I am in Holland for now anyway it may be an excellent occasion to advance a modest contribution to the saving of my native country. As a bi-polar patient I have for 33 years tried to fathom either one or the other pole and with the meltdown of the polar caps Holland might need a hand.
I do this, traditionally, without self-interest (although your contribution on my Dutch ‘giro’-account 2153717 still is appreciated), as, though in Ireland I live only 10 metres from the high waterline, I do have the 600 metre back up of a mountain, the Slieve Elva. For me this future would worst case scenario be a parking problem, which, in view of the demographic density in and around Fanore is solvable with the turn of a wheel.
The following suggestions, however, came to me in a dream and I regard them a given. I did not win them by the sweat on my face. You see, the problem of the rising level of the waters of the world will in itself pose no immediate threat to the Dutch Delta-works. Sooner it will be the forming of waves by wind and springtides by the moon. Combinations of these cannot be prevented, unless we could influence the gravity of the moon or streamline the sea. For the time being the first option will be castles in the air, but the second is basically attainable.
Nature itself in a way gives away the solution by the cause. Approaching the Pole one first meets icebergs, then a shoal zone follows before a solid frozen ice cover.
I do realise that with the proposal to create artificial floating islands before the coast in order to breakdown the waves in time I am treading on the so sensitive toes of the ecolophyles, but I know myself supported by the interest of the Dutch people and the real estate market that will put great value on keeping the national economy afloat in spite of ecological daredevilry.
In frame of the problematic above I intend to join this issue with two more articles. So keep tuning in and drop eaves on yourself as well. May thee walk in dry socks.
Jan Ploeg, Eindhoven, January 14th 2007
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