Original title: Bangkok may be submerged in sea water within 31 years Prime Minister of Thailand said 'consider moving the capital'
Recently, according to Thai media, citing the US non-profit organization "Climate Center", the global sea level is gradually rising. In the next 31 years (before 2050), major cities around the world will be at risk of sinking. Among them, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and other Asian countries will have more than two-thirds of the people affected.
In the next 31 years, the situation in Thailand is very worrying, with more than one tenth of the Thai people living in cities likely to be flooded, and Bangkok, Thailand's political and economic center, will be the first to bear the brunt, the group said.
Most parts of Bangkok, Thailand, are below sea level and are in danger of sinking
According to Thailand's world daily on September 5, the international sea level organization announced 10 major cities with the fastest sinking speed in the world, and Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, ranked fifth.
According to the survey of Thailand's geographic information and Information Development Bureau, most areas of Bangkok have been below sea level, and continue to sink at the rate of 1-2cm every year.
When Bangkok was founded hundreds of years ago, the city's canals were above sea level. Today, most canals are below sea level. According to the survey of Thailand geographic information and Information Development Bureau, most areas of Bangkok have been below sea level, and continue to sink at the rate of 1-2cm every year.
In 2018, a World Bank report predicted that by 2030, 40% of Bangkok's land area would not reach sea level.
The UN disaster risk analyst who lives in Bangkok said that climate change has brought great pressure to Bangkok, the flood caused by global warming is increasing, and farmers have to give up their fields to work in cities, which is a very terrible thing.
Thai Prime Minister Bayu: or consider moving the capital
Recently, Thai Prime Minister Tayyip Bayu said moving the capital from Bangkok may be one of the options to overcome the problems of overcrowding, serious pollution, rising sea level and traffic congestion, Singapore's Lianhe Morning Post reported. This means that Thailand may become another Southeast Asian country to consider moving its capital after Myanmar and Indonesia.
According to reports, on September 18, Bayu proposed two new capital conditions, namely, a city not far from Bangkok and not expensive to move the capital, and moving to the periphery of Bangkok to ease congestion and traffic flow. But he added that this requires a comprehensive and in-depth study to find out the social and economic impact of moving the capital.
According to the ranking of the world's worst transport cities released in 2018, Bangkok ranks eighth, second only to Jakarta, while Mumbai ranks first. Tosapon, Secretary General of Thailand's national economic and Social Development Commission, said Bayu had not yet asked the agency to study the possibility seriously, saying that Bayu's recent proposal might be "just casual".
Tosapon said that moving the capital also requires serious cooperation from various institutions. "I think the prime minister just threw out the issue and asked the people to think about how to solve the traffic congestion problem in Bangkok. '