Ride the tide: more than 100 cyclists arrive at Groenplaat… (Antwerp)
On Wednesday, a group of cyclists from ‘Climate Express – Ride the Tide’ started a 325 km journey from Poperinge along the future Flemish flood line. This could become a reality in 2100 due to global warming. On Saturday afternoon, the group arrived at the Antwerp Groenplaats with more than a hundred cyclists under a radiant sun. “Antwerp is also not spared from global warming”, says figurehead Nick Balthazar.
Source: Own reporting
“That future flood line is not scaremongering”, the presenter and filmmaker. “It is based on future weather models that predict that large parts of East and West Flanders will flood towards the end of eternity.” amino acids that he has more and more heavy rain showers like we saw in Wallonia last summer.” Antwerp is not spared either, it sounds. It is therefore no coincidence that the tour on the Groenplaats.
“Antwerp is located on a tidal river and will get more water in the future. Antwerp will regularly be blank, both from the sea and from the inland. A disaster for anyone living in the city. According to the organizers, this is detrimental to agriculture in East and West Flanders, among other things. “Salt water could potentially make our best farmland barren,” said Balthazar.
headwind
“We have had a long journey”, says organizer Marc Alexander. “In addition, we left very early in a heavy rain shower. Fortunately the weather got better as we approached Antwerp. Today we end, again symbolically, under the shining sun after a lot of headwind.”
“For more than ten years we have been saying that something has to be done ‘now’”, says the climate activist. According to him, the ‘now’ has been pushed forward all the time. “Hopefully after the emissions in Germany and Wallonia, we will immediately reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
To draw attention to the climate problem, the cyclists will join the major climate action in Brussels on Sunday. Plagued by saddle soreness, most drivers will take the train to the capital.