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As for Syria, the worst that can happen is unacceptable: effective partition of the country, with a poor, extremist-led Sunni state in the east, shut out from the sea and the country’s wealth.
For starters, Greenland’s meltwater is flowing into the ocean, raising global sea levels.
As temperatures have increased, the sea level’s rise has accelerated from one centimeter per decade in the early twentieth century to more than three centimeters in each of the last two decades – an overall increase of nearly 20 centimeters since 1900.
If its ice sheet melted completely, sea levels would rise by seven meters – meaning that we cannot afford to lose even a small fraction of the ice sheet.
The vanishing Arctic sea ice also affects the atmosphere.
Business plans that include investments in the Arctic, the ultra-deep sea, and the oil sands of Canada have no place in a climate-safe world.
The result is a growing territorial assertiveness, which has become a source of new friction along China’s land and sea frontiers.
Smith described the European discoveries of the sea passage to Asia (around the southern tip of Africa) and the Americas as the two greatest events in world history.
He crowned these with his call to liberate Palestine "from the river to the sea," that is, the destruction of Israel, outdoing the Palestinian leaders themselves.
But there is no institutionalized means to discuss and resolve the dispute, which is taking on greater significance almost daily, owing to the belief that vast mineral and energy resources lay on the sea bed around the Spratlys.
Another explanation is that the boats are filled simply with fishermen who, under pressure from the government to boost their yields, ventured out too far into the open sea.
Worse still, the same shipping line has been involved in at least three other tragedies at sea in the past 11 years, including the “Dona Paz” disaster in 1987, which killed more than 4,000 people and was described as the world’s worst maritime disaster in peace time.
Of prime concern is the fact that sea travel has been and will always be perilous.
For a thousand years, states have regulated maritime transportation for the purpose of promoting safety at sea.
To many of them, sea travel remains the only viable means of transportation.
For the past two months, thousands of Lopez Obrador’s most fervent supporters have transformed the Zocalo, Mexico City’s central square, into a virtual sea of tents – the center of gravity of opposition to the official result.
But the US took a strong stand that the South China Sea, which includes important sea lanes for oil shipments from the Middle East and container ships from Europe, and over which military and commercial aircraft routinely fly, was subject to the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty (UNCLOS).
In 2014, after China stationed an oil rig in waters claimed by Vietnam, ships from the two countries engaged in ramming and water-cannon battles at sea; anti-Chinese riots in Vietnam followed.
But these forces float on the surface of a larger sea change: a fundamental shift worldwide in the relationship between the state and the market.
In the Indian Ocean, NATO is working with the European Union and many others to police major sea lanes threatened by pirates.
It is now recognized that widespread damage due, for instance, to sea level rise and more frequent and intense heat waves, floods and droughts, will occur even for small increases of global average temperature.
Where once we lined up tanks along borders, we are now building a complex system that requires a range of high-tech contributions from many allies – on land, at sea, and in the air.
Even more reassuring were the principles that will, according to Gates, guide America’s future Asian strategy: free and open commerce; support for the rule of law and the rights, responsibilities, and sovereignty of Asia’s states; open access to Asian and global sea lanes, airspace, and cyberspace; and peaceful resolution of all conflicts.
For example, one economist working on the project argued that focusing on a handful of key diseases creates islands of excellence in a sea of dysfunction.
The Europeanization of RussiaIn less than four years, Russia has undergone an astonishing sea change.
To be sure, claims that the North was showing restraint were clearly premature: North Korea has since fired three short-range ballistic missiles from its east coast into the sea, and, more ominously, launched a ballistic missile over northern Japan.
And as the ice caps melt, rising sea levels are increasingly putting hundreds of millions of people in coastal areas at risk.
We must crack down on illegal fishing, fund research, and develop lower-carbon sea transportation and sustainable seafood production.
As global temperatures and sea levels continue to rise, so, too, does the frequency and intensity of natural disasters and, with them, the risk of deadly epidemics and endemic disease outbreaks.
There’s no insurance fund to draw upon if we need investments to respond to large increases in sea levels, unforeseen health risks, and migration on a massive scale as a result of climate change.
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