Is it true that the Norwegians are preparing for some near future disaster by making underground homes?

Question

From terrorist attack maybe?

Has anyone heard this or is it a trick being played on me at work? A troll joke by my workmates?

Answer 1

it's possible

Answer 2

how did you find out about this? that's where the answer probably lies. Terrorists won't be attacking individual homes (well, ok, maybe Mr. Bush's big white domicile) and if they let off a nuke or some kind of bug, then - as one has to breathe - I don't think building your house a few metres underground will make any difference. Same goes for natural disasters. If sea levels rise then one should be building bloody enormous towers, I'd say, not houses that are lower than the ocean. And earthquakes/volcanoes/meteor strikes would probably just as easily smash/burn/crush a house that's a few metres underground as it would one above. Probably. Maybe a few very rich Norwegians could afford to build a deep underground house-***-shelter(with uncontaminated air supply and fresh water supply...and electricity) but I don't think Norwegians in general are doing so.

Hmm, yet there aren't any answers from Norwegians so far...maybe it's hard to get the net underground...or they're all at work (all together now...hi ho hi ho it's off to...

Answer 3

I have a couple friends who live in Norway. Two of them have a underground home and love it. Most of them doesn't live in one but say it's becoming more and more common steady. So yes it's true.

Answer 4

I know of a few things which could have distorted into the rumour you're repeating here. On the Norweigan isle of Svalbard, seeds of all known crop varieties are being frozen underground in preparation for any future disaster. The seeds will be frozen in foil in the region, known for near Arctic temperatures. I also read that another small island off Norway, Utsira, is experimenting with reliance on wind power. The nature-loving Scandinavians take their ecology seriously, bless 'em! Of course, Norway is not prone to the kind of ecological disasters that have befallen other countries in the forms of monsoons, landslides, volcanoes and earthquakes.

In Amsterdam, Netherlands, underground homes are being built by a firm known as Zwarts & Jansma. The project will take approximately 20 years, costing some 7.4 billion euros (around 10 billion dollars in my guesstimation). This is a longterm response to the Earth's ever increasing population, and is thought to be a precedent to similar projects, particularly in built up areas such as Shanghai. Admirably, the Dutch have even taken steps to leave the Amsterdam's historic canals untouched. I know that many Americans would like to see the US government take environmental issues seriously, and China's positing itself as a developing country allows it to effectively take the proverbial you-know-what in the face of carbon footprint and pollution restrictions, but until the populative and economic giants pull their act together here, things are only getting worse, and faster...