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January 22nd, 2007 by levende

In his 1998 novel Tales of Protection, Norwegian writer Erik Fosnes Hansen writes about how to protect oneself from bees, and he describes how lighthouses save lives.  

This makes me think of cities at the sea: How does one protect a place against the splashing and clashing of the waves?

4 Responses to “Protection”

  1. on 22 Jan 2007 at 7:18 pm   Nadja

    Very good question - and according to Al Gore’s documentary/book/world-wide-power-point-presentation An inconvenient Truth the number of threathened cities might very well explode within a few decades.

    See the trailer and read more about the possible consequences on http://www.climatecrisis.net.

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