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Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by Jabioro: 11:25am On Oct 01, 2019
Creating of fearful report is a crime to humanity..even in Lagos there are still thousand of acre of virgin land with beautiful ecological life..make dem carry their go Mars and Venus
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by engrchykae(m): 11:25am On Oct 01, 2019
claycares:

According to one school of though, the earth's climate destruction is already beyond redemption. This is supported by Greta Thunberg, schoolgirl climate change warrior.

The other school of thought says that we can only do little as the problem lies in our planetary solar system, i.e. the earth's planetary orbit around the solar system dictates the temperature of the earth just like the moon's gravitational pull is producing waves in our oceans.

We may have to find another planet in the galaxy to colonize if this continues unabated. grin
maybe we are about to the end of our era,just like the former civilizations before us
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by madenigga(m): 11:26am On Oct 01, 2019
Is it possible for the Nigerian government to do an extensive pipeline that would connect water from the south all the way to the lake chad?
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by Nvc078: 11:26am On Oct 01, 2019
post=82734770:

Since all these more developed cities are at risk for the same flooding that Lagos is about to experience.
The best thing is for Lagos State Government to see the measures these other cities will make and seek out help in good time.

God bless Lagos state.
God bless Nigeria.
Or rather they should come up with workable measures worth of emulation by other potential flood victims cities. We mustn't be the copycats every time

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Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by 9gerian: 11:27am On Oct 01, 2019
grin cheesy


Maldini212:
Good news,,,,, very soon afonjas will be wiped out from the earth


Thunder fire Cowhari and his surporters


Y'all will die in aircrash
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by SoNature(m): 11:28am On Oct 01, 2019
Oluwasaeon:
Time to go to Mars

Can you afford it?

SpaceX is undergoing tests

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Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by 9gerian: 11:29am On Oct 01, 2019
As we have not demonstrated prowess for environmental sophistication, pls let them copy on this one.

Lives are involved!


Nvc078:

Or rather they should come up with workable measures worth of emulation by other potential flood victims cities. We mustn't be the copycats every time

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Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by SoNature(m): 11:30am On Oct 01, 2019
TheAngry1:
You'll be surprised how Chinedu will celebrate this news!
Wait for it...

You see how brainless some of you lots are?
You are .more worried about what Chinedu thinks than a lasting solution

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Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by ednut1(m): 11:31am On Oct 01, 2019
As at today water has reached these houses i snapped 3 months ago shocked. Alpha beach

Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by ikubese: 11:33am On Oct 01, 2019
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by Nvc078: 11:34am On Oct 01, 2019
9gerian:
As we have not demonstrated prowess for environmental sophistication, pls let them copy on this one.

Lives are involved!



I agree with you,but the truth is that we can come up with our own way of tackling this,remember the Ebola disease scenario?
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by Omenkata: 11:35am On Oct 01, 2019
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post=82734770:

Since all these more developed cities are at risk for the same flooding that Lagos is about to experience.
The best thing is for Lagos State Government to see the measures these other cities will make and seek out help in good time.

God bless Lagos state.
God bless Nigeria.
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Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by sapientia(m): 11:37am On Oct 01, 2019
FG reply will tell me if this report should be respected.
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by Oluwasaeon(m): 11:38am On Oct 01, 2019
SoNature:


Can you afford it?

SpaceX is undergoing tests
I already booked, bro wink
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by Nobody: 11:42am On Oct 01, 2019
Until we start applying GIS and consulting Geographers, Environmental Reseachers and Urban Planners in Nigeria before we can overcome all these.
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by kayusely70(m): 11:47am On Oct 01, 2019
Scientists should try to profeer solutions.
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by romoruyi(m): 11:47am On Oct 01, 2019
Funny how this Compliments that which has Been Passed Already. Its Just A Matter Of Time.
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by dangoteinlaw: 11:47am On Oct 01, 2019
ainas247:
:They finished buying land. now buying water and sandfilled.
It is well..

Rank your website fast on Google
chat up now
if they weren't so ill advised they would have understood the need for high rise buildings. The sky is not for sale

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Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by adenigga(m): 11:47am On Oct 01, 2019
claycares:

According to one school of though, the earth's climate destruction is already beyond redemption. This is supported by Greta Thunberg, schoolgirl climate change warrior.

The other school of thought says that we can only do little as the problem lies in our planetary solar system, i.e. the earth's planetary orbit around the solar system dictates the temperature of the earth just like the moon's gravitational pull is producing waves in our oceans.

We may have to find another planet in the galaxy to colonize if this continues unabated. grin

I've been preparing to relocate to MARS.

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Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by Amanda4life: 11:50am On Oct 01, 2019
MadeBlack10:
So what's the solution to all these problems listed out?

Go back to ur village
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by Nobody: 11:50am On Oct 01, 2019
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claycares:
[url][/url]Goldman Sachs released a 34-page analysis of the impact of climate change. And the results are terrifying.

A Goldman Sachs report on the impact of climate change on cities across the world makes for grim reading. Rising temperatures would lead to changing disease patterns, more intense and longer-lasting heatwaves, more destructive weather events, and pressure on the availability and quality of water for drinking and agriculture.

Major cities were also highlighted at risk of flooding with parts of New York, Tokyo, and Lagos all at risk of being partially submerged.
View Markets Insider for more stories.

Goldman Sachs released a report on the effect of climate change on cities around the world and the results made for grim reading.
The bank's Global Markets Institute, led by Amanda Hindlian, warned of "significant" potential risks to the world's largest cities, which are especially vulnerable to more frequent storms, higher temperatures, rising sea levels, and storm surges.

Cities generate about 80% of global GDP and are home to more than half of the world's population, a share that Goldman says, citing the United Nations, is projected to reach two-thirds by 2050. About 40% of the global population lives within 100 kilometers of a coast, it says, and 1 in 10 live in areas less than 10 meters above sea level.

Goldman highlighted three cities which would be subject to those storm surges and in the future could face harmful flooding — New York, Tokyo, and Lagos. Miami, Alexandria, Dhaka, and Shanghai face major flood risks due to being less than 11 meters above sea level.

Goldman's researchers said that when starting the study they took a broad consensus that human activity, namely emission of greenhouse gasses "is causing the earth to warm in ways that are affecting the climate."

Natural ecosystems would be damaged, and risks to human health would rise, as well as pressures on food and drinking water.
Agriculture would also be massively affected: "Warmer temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns could reduce yields and nutritional quality as well change growing seasons and agricultural zones around the world."

Goldman gave some fairly stark warnings about potential outcomes:
- More frequent, more intense, and longer-lasting heatwaves. The consequences will affect human health, productivity, economic activity, and agriculture. "Higher surface temperatures could exacerbate the warming process by causing permafrost to melt, releasing further methane and CO2 into the atmosphere."

- Destructive weather events, including storms, winds, flooding and fires. It's not just New York, Tokyo and Lagos. "Other major low-lying coastal or already flood-prone cities include Shanghai, Dhaka, Mumbai and Karachi – each of which has a population of 15 million people or more." Changing disease patterns. "Warmer temperatures could cause disease vectors to migrate from the tropics to regions where people have less immunity; this is true not only for viruses like malaria and dengue fever but also for water-borne and food-borne diseases."

- Shifting agricultural patterns and food shortages. "Livestock could be affected by higher temperatures and reduced water supplies. Ocean acidification is likely to put stress on aquatic populations and affect current fishing patterns. Some of these changes are already underway. Some climate scientists, for example, estimate that coral reefs will be all but extinct over the course of the century due to ocean acidification."

- Water. "Half of the world's population will live in water-stressed areas as soon as 2025," Goldman notes, citing the World Health Orgnization. "Even in non-stressed areas, the quality of surface water could deteriorate as more rain and storms drive erosion and the release of toxins. These dynamics could affect everything from the availability of drinking water for people to a shortage of water for livestock and crops (with negative effects for the food supply) to decreases in hydroelectric power generation."

The bank said that all those factors would "affect economic activity, damage infrastructure – from buildings to transportation to water and waste-management systems – and disproportionately harm vulnerable residents."

"Despite the uncertainty around the timing and scale of the impact, it may be prudent for some cities to start investing in adaptation now," Goldman says. "Urban adaptation could drive one of the largest infrastructure build-outs in history. Given the scale of the task, urban adaptation will likely need to draw on innovative sources of financing."

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/goldman-sachs-climate-change-threatens-new-york-tokyo-lagos-cities-2019-9-1028552494


I don't believe in any of these.
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by dangoteinlaw: 11:51am On Oct 01, 2019
SoNature:


Can you afford it?

SpaceX is undergoing tests
I trust NASA to come up with something better very soon, speaking of NASA what's the update on area 51, those aliens might just be our only hope, God is busy spreading cancer all over the righteous ones in other to test their Faith's lol
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by luminouz(m): 11:54am On Oct 01, 2019
dangoteinlaw:
I trust NASA to come up with something better very soon, speaking of NASA what's the update on area 51, those aliens might just be our only hope, God is busy spreading cancer all over the righteous ones in other to test their Faith's lol

Please do re-read what you wrote and see if it makes sense to even you!
SMH!!
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by Nobody: 11:56am On Oct 01, 2019
The first thing Lagos should do is to expand this BRT bus scheme to all nooks and crannies of Lagos. Get more private cars off the road.

Improve on the water transport system through PPP and allow subsidies in the interim.


These two schemes will get more cars off the roads which leads to less carbon emissions. Then we can now consider having more trees and gardens.

On the long run, we can now develop our beaches and work on the shoreline protection system. Lagos can do it.

As for where the money will come from, if you float a Lagos state bond to source for funds in this regards, it will be sold out in few days.

Comfortable BRT buses which are faster and time saving will generate quantum revenue for Lagos state.

I can afford to go build in the outskirts of Epe or ikorodu if I am guaranteed good transport to take me to and fro my daily tasks in record time.
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by CaseSensitive(m): 11:57am On Oct 01, 2019
Unless our people are enlightened and educated about the rising impact of climate change
Unless we stop cutting down trees at the current rates
Unless big corporations adopts the use of bio degradable materials and reverse logistics
Unless we tone down on our CO2 and GHG emissions from both industrial and personal use and adopt renewable energy
Unless we adopt and enforce an ethical waste disposal, especially in Nigeria and other third world countries.

Climate change is a collective issue and it is not natural, we as humans brought this on ourself and it requires a collective solutions if it’s not too late already. An article I read not long ago argued that we need 4 more planet earth to withstand the damage we have caused to the only known habitable planet we live in. We are burning our planet and the signs are everywhere; weather patterns are changing, temperature is rising globally, sea level is rising.

Unless we take actions while we can, we are all doomed and coming generations will suffer the most.

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Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by senatepresido: 11:59am On Oct 01, 2019
post=82734770:

Since all these more developed cities are at risk for the same flooding that Lagos is about to experience.
The best thing is for Lagos State Government to see the measures these other cities will make and seek out help in good time.

God bless Lagos state.
God bless Nigeria.
Oil dey your head
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by CaseSensitive(m): 12:01pm On Oct 01, 2019
madenigga:
Is it possible for the Nigerian government to do an extensive pipeline that would connect water from the south all the way to the lake chad?

There will be nothing left of Lake Chad in few years to come. Climate change taking its toll, rising population and poor irrigation system. Lake Chad is shrinking!

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Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by dangoteinlaw: 12:01pm On Oct 01, 2019
luminouz:


Please do re-read what you wrote and see if it makes sense to even you!
SMH!!
sorry bro, it's not my fault you are not up to date one what's happening around the globe, what's ur type doing on a conspiracy and climatic theory thread, u want get headache?
Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by Reference(m): 12:06pm On Oct 01, 2019
Been telling you Lagos folks for years now. The Sky News report on climate change a few days ago was even more damning, the results of which are clear. The biggest polluters China and the United States are running neck and neck to the economic trophy tape so both will not cease pumping carbon into the air anytime soon.

But you folks should not make too much noise until I have exploited the Lekki corridor and the property market to its fullest before bailing out by 2025 (at the most), then I guess it will all be downhill from there as far as house prices go.

My guess is that by the time my kids will be buying their own homes the only thing standing in that axis will be the Dangote refinery behind a monumental sand bank.... because he can afford it. Others will have to take a ferry from Ikeja to the Dangote Island passing the sunken Lagos and Victoria Islands gasping in utter amzement at what has become like Venice.

Folks, Lagos Island, Victoria Island, Lekki Peninsula, Portharcourt, Yenegoa and other such places have no viable long term prospects. We have done a long term climate risk assessment in our operations in the south and the prognosis is dire. The solutions are simple, if it cannot float then we are not going long term.

One of my partners actually asked me two years back after seeing the computer generated models of sea level ingress into our operational area whether concrete could float.

I told him quite frankly..... we need such miracles in Nigeria going forward.

Call it GDP, call it resources, call it income, call, it livelihood or investments but all I know is that as a nation, 90 to 95 percent is located within 20 to 30 miles from the Atlantic and is in direct crosshairs of ocean surge and one of the greatest challenges modern man has ever encountered, climate change.

We are in big, big trouble in this country.

Our greatest undoing will be our inability to diversify. Our greatest Achilles heel is our herd mentality in rushing to the coast for survival.

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Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by hustlelegit(m): 12:09pm On Oct 01, 2019
This Is what we humans brought upon ourselves, Amazon forest that's serves as our co2 storage went ablaze this year thereby releasing tons of co2 to the atmosphere.
The world freezer "antartica" is shrinking and giving out tons of water everyday.
So I won't be surprise if Miami or Lagos partially shrink cos this climatic crises is not a laughable issues ooo.
Ur fool president in the UN said he will order Nigerian youth to plant millions of trees across the country.

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Re: Lagos At Risk Of Being Partially Submerged - Goldman Sachs Report by winterfell007(m): 12:10pm On Oct 01, 2019
Overpopulation is the major cause of climate change. more than half of the world's population needs to be wiped off

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