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Endangered cultural monument:
Mont-Saint-Michel in France
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Andia / Universal Images Group / Getty Images
The Mont-Saint-Michel is a symbol of France, the most famous after the Eiffel Tower.
The rock in Normandy on which the abbey and the village were built turns into an island at spring tide, and then you can no longer even get there via a bridge.
In 1884 the writer Victor Hugo wrote that it was "to France what the Great Pyramid of Cheops is to Egypt".
Climate change will be felt here.
If the sea level rises higher than 60 centimeters, the bridge, the lifeline of the rock, is flooded.
If all the ice on the earth were to melt, only the tip of the rock would stick out of the water.
What are the precautions to be taken to meet these developments?
In short: there are none.
Déborah Idier, who works at the National Geosciences Research Center in Orléans, studies how sea level rise affects currents and tides.
They expect more water in the bay, says Idier, and a lower current.
Nobody has researched anything more specific.
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