Global Warming & Bangladesh; Opportunities for Eco-Engineering

Over the next decade one hopes that intelligent design of engineering responses to potential sea level increase challenging Bangladesh may become a priority project for world governments interested in building political stability.

Because the world's sea levels may rise three feet by the year 2100, nations with extensive low-lying areas barely above sea level already subject to flooding and storm surges have the opportunity to exploit the possible changes for profit and temporal security.

Human land use has historically tended to regard natural resources as disposable too much. Some of the best farming lands such as in The Puget Sound region are today covered over by housing and commercial developments, much less the wild biosphere that went before. Bangladesh with its large, densely populated and vulnerable to flooding area must go ahead with land conservation though, if it is to exploit the power of surging tides and wind for hydro-electric and wind-power generation, and establish berm-wave-wheel generators on the front line of a series of variegated dikes designed to allow occasional overspill to fill mariculture areas beyond.

Bangladesh presents an opportunity for innovative engineering designs to manipulate water and wind producing electrical power, providing security in regulating flooding, growing marine organisms for food that can be modified in time even laying a foundation for platforms in case the Greenland and Antarctica's ice entirely melts raising global sea level twenty or thirty feet.

In short, Bangladesh seems a very fertile ground for local environmental engineering opportunities today. Perhaps Bangladesh's essential rivers might occasionally be diverted to new channels for a few years before restoration in order to allow farming of the vacant river channels. Large scale filtering of river water to make it fit for drinking might also be an aspect of irrigation. Such infusion of minerals to the soil as well as crop rotation might increase annual food yields.

Bangladesh does excite the creative mind to regard a large range of cost-efficient environmental economic as rising in prospect. Like the optimal Swiss army knife with a plethora of tools and functions, Bangladesh with clever international investment today could become tomorrow a nation able to prosper of the presence and power of flooding water, rising sea level, tidal surges, rampaging rivers and typhoons stimulated by burning fossil fuels globally for over a century.

Holland was able to control the sea's hegemony over its land for centuries and Baglasdesh too may be set to serve as a model for innovative adaptations to control and exploit the power and potential of the ocean to surge over valued land used by a large population-at least for a time. Some time in the future-perhaps more than a century or two, human culture may advance to a level where changing sea levels on the Earth may no longer be a danger to human populations.