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image Venice: A Sinking City image, effect, effect, effect,…

- - - - pump out the water since 1930s
        
        the rate of subsidence to accelerate dramatically
        
        sunk by 25 cm in the past century alone
      - burn vast quantities of fossil fuels and release carbon dioxide
        
        global warming
        
        the polar ice caps melting
        
        world's sea levels rising
    - - acqua alta
        
        greatly increase the likelihood of flooding
      - the lack of solid, stable foundation
        
        the city's building to sink over time
      - Adriatic Plate, which is gradually shifting beneath the Apennine Mountains
        
        the land that Venice sits on to drop even further in elevation