Problems of the existence and development of cities and villages in the context of global climate change

Abstract

The article examined climate change caused by the melting of glaciers, sea ice, permafrost and forest fires. As a result, huge amounts of greenhouse gases such as methane (CH₄) and carbon dioxide (CO₂) are released into the atmosphere. Their transcendent accumulation in the atmosphere has led to the emergence of a greenhouse effect on our planet, steadily increasing the temperature. In turn, rising temperatures cause melting, fires, and so on. As a result, there is an increase in the level of the World Ocean, threatening to flood large low-lying and coastal areas with cities and other settlements and infrastructure facilities located there. Using the methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization, forecasting, results were obtained that characterize the relationship between the processes of melting ice sheet, fires, rising temperatures and the level of the World Ocean, on the one hand, and the disappearance of small islands, villages, cities and even some states, on the other. In this regard, the need to take urgent measures to build dams that protect cities and villages from flooding, the construction of houses on stilts that ensure their inaccessibility by rising water levels, and floating houses that can follow the rise in the level of the World Ocean is being discussed. The main conclusion is that states and peoples should take climate change more seriously. Not only to take actions aimed at directly combating them, but also to protect existing cities, villages, and infrastructure, using world historical and modern experience for this.