From: John Cuccia 

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:32:51 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
>news:45a38da9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> Most of Bangladesh disappears at ten feet.
>
>Look on a global scale and tell me what percentage of land vanishes at 10ft.
>
>If most of it happens to be Bangladesh and Florida, well bummer, but on a
>global basis it's such a small amount that it's insignificant (unless of
>course that's where you live in which case it's the end of the world)

That would be the end of the world for half the world population:
http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=429§ion=6
Just over half the world's population - around 3.2 billion people - occupy
a coastal strip 200 kilometres wide (120 miles), representing only 10 per
cent of the earth's land surface.

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