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  1. 046 #ClimateSolutions #Hedwigepolder
    #Research

    Strange story from my home country:
    the deliberate flooding of a Dutch 'Polder' (famous Dutch land below sealevel)

    "The Dutch polder dilemma"
    by Flavia Cosoveanu for Next Blue

    next.blue/the-dutch-polder-dil

    Quotes:
    "Depoldering of the Hedwige polder is a unique case. The Hedwige polder is in the south of The Netherlands at the border with Belgium. ..//.. Hedwige was depoldered or ‘given back to the sea’ in 2018 as a nature compensation measure because of the deepening of the Westerschelde channel for navigation and the expected accelerated sea level rise by 2100."

    "For researchers like me, Hedwige raises a lot of questions on the implications of depoldering: How will depoldering affect the multi-functionality of the larger polder landscape in future? How will climate change affect this changed polder landscape?"

    " #ZonEnWindZijnVanOns #SunAndWindAreOurs "

    "Otherwise I'm of the opinion that #FossilSubsidies must stop"