Wednesday, October 26, 2011

China's Great Wall is hundreds or thousands of years old, and it's eroding already; CO2 blamed

Great Wall Collapses Due To Human Activity | Planetsave
Increasing climate change due to global warming and human activity is having a toll on some of earth’s greatest architectural monuments. The Great Wall of China, which has stood for more than two millennia, has recently experienced the collapse of two chunks of its structure: one due to climate changes causing erosions of the land surrounding the wall and the other caused by mining taking place in nearby areas.

2 comments:

Luboš Motl said...

Sorry, I am not getting the "hundreds of thousands of years". The planetsave server says "2 millennia" which is two thousand years only, right?

Tom said...

It's hundreds OR thousands (the article says that parts were built only hundreds of years ago).