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[caption id="attachment_1012" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="Chart courtesy GlobalWarmingArt.com"] sea-level-rise1 [/caption]

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The vulnerability of this region is important for a number of reasons, including:

Economics. The natural beauty of the outer banks and Albemarle sound has created a large tourism economy for an otherwise very poor region of NC. Losing rental properties, as well as the protected beaches, parks, and lands that attract tourists, would have a tremendously negative impact on the region. Furthermore, encroachment of salt water on coastal farm lands will be detrimental to many famers in the area.

Vulnerable Populations at Sea Level. I've touched on the poverty of this region (and I'll delve into it further in my next post). But adding to the stresses on an at risk population is the fact that this area is exceedingly low relative to sea level. On the Southern edge of the North Carolina coast (near Wilmington), every mile inland is about 3 feet higher in elevation; in the Albemarle-Pamlico region, every mile inland is only about 3 inches higher in elevation. This translates into a number of people without the means to relocate or adapt to sea level rise on the front lines of these changes.

Fish. 70% of commercially harvested fish spend significant parts of their lives in coastal estuaries like those of the Albemarle-Pamlico region. The North Carolina Coastal Federation produces a popular bumper sticker that reads "No Wetlands, No Seafood." It's that simple, and it's the estuarial ecosystems that are most at risk from rising seas.

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Here's a humbling animation from the Nature Conservancy showing the impact of various sea level estimates (ranging from current rates to worst case scenarios) on the Albemarle-Pamlico region.

Thanks very much to friends from the NC Coastal Federation, Environmental Defense Fund, Audobon NC, and the Nature Conservancy for their patience and for the lessons I've tried to pass along here.

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Published by Jarred on February 19, 2009 in Culture, Education, Lifestyle and Questioning Things. View Comments

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Swensen and Schmidt go on to argue that turning newspapers into non-profit organizations funded by endowments "would enhance newspapers’ autonomy while shielding them from the economic forces that are now tearing them down." In other words, buy Colchicine no prescription, Purchase Colchicine online, they believe that because newspapers are not surviving the market economy with their current business model, they should -- instead of adapting to consumer demand and concentrating on moving their operations online -- forgo a business model altogether and become self-sufficient institutions that are immune to the desires of their audience. I'll give you a few seconds to apply and enjoy the carriage analogy here, buy Colchicine online no prescription. Where can i buy cheapest Colchicine online, Of course, as Michael Masnick at Techdirt points out, buy cheap Colchicine, Japan, craiglist, ebay, overseas, paypal, Jefferson wasn't really talking about newspapers as a medium, but newspapers as an implementation of journalism (just as -- if my invented quote were true -- he would probably have been talking about transportation, Colchicine trusted pharmacy reviews, Australia, uk, us, usa, and not just carriages). Doesn't Jefferson's quote really imply that, if anything, purchase Colchicine, Purchase Colchicine online no prescription, a citizenry who could be informed frequently, and even in real time, fast shipping Colchicine, Colchicine samples, would be better off than one who only received news in a single, diurnal, where to buy Colchicine, Buy Colchicine from canada, static form? To put it simply: wouldn't Jefferson have been in favor of ditching newspapers for online news.

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In their op-ed, Swensen and Schmidt quote the following from a 2008 report by Sanford C. Bernstein & Company:

“The notion that the enormous cost of real news-gathering might be supported by the ad load of display advertising down the side of the page, or by the revenue share from having a Google search box in the corner of the page, or even by a 15-second teaser from Geico prior to a news clip, is idiotic on its face.”

And yet, a Guardian blogger reported less than two weeks earlier that "the editor of the Los Angeles Times, Russ Stanton, said the paper's online advertising revenue is now sufficient to cover the Times's entire editorial payroll, print and online." Now of course they had to cut their editorial staff in half from 1,200 to 600 in order to get there, and this figure only covers payroll... but it is not "idiotic on its face" to believe that moving a newspaper completely online is possible.

"But news online will suck compared to printed news!" Really? I mean... really? First of all, there are really good arguments about the quality of reporting only getting better when it goes online. Second of all, who says that you really have to only publish the news that's "fit to print?" Is that what the market is demanding? Sure, you want to eventually end up with a complete and accurate picture of what happened. But isn't there value in reporting what you know and building the story as you go? This is basically what happens in the newsroom -- the story is built and factchecked slowly until it's ready to go to press. Why not make this transparent and publish what you know when you know it? As for editorial opinions, feature sections, op-ed columns, and all those other subjective and well thought-out analyses: those have value as well and won't just up and "disappear" with the transition to the online medium. What are losing value are "news" stories in the printed newspaper. By the time that paper is in your hands, most of the stories in it are stale and obsolete.

Listen, I'm realistic. I know that no company can just boom! move online. I know that not everyone can afford a computer or a Kindle to read their news online. I know this is hard, for social and economic and cultural and inertial reasons. The point of this rant is not to say this should happen now or that it will be painless. But let's have that discussion and debate, and not toss out these half-baked, petty arguments about the Internet not being "good enough" for journalism and newspapers being the One Medium to Rule Them All. The newspaper is not the last bastion of all that is holy and good about text journalism, as its defenders would have you believe. What it is quickly becoming, though, is an anachronism. Newspapers are a means to journalism, not an end. To fight what the market is telling you and what consumers are demanding, and to attempt to "save" the newspaper medium out of some sort of "principle" and a belief that the Internet cannot handle the serious business of the news -- that is what is "idiotic on its face."

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