The SeaNet Vision
Stop Rising Seas & Turn Melting Ice Into Blue Gold
Russ Walsh
Russ is an innovative technology executive with more than 30 years of experience advising global leaders such as IBM, GE, Apple, Google, and Facebook. With deep expertise in cybersecurity, risk and compliance, and critical infrastructure systems, he brings both vision and pragmatism to solving complex global challenges.
He is the Founder of the SeaNet Vision and author of the upcoming book The SeaNet Vision: Stop Rising Seas and Turn Melting Ice into Blue Gold (Q1 2026), a bold initiative to address sea levels rise through ocean redirection and inland water engineering.
Russ also serves as Chief Revenue Officer at CyberSurv, a forward-looking cybersecurity consulting firm focused on compliance, sustainability, and protecting critical systems.
Climate Change has become a controversial topic
Are temperatures really rising?
Are the polar ice caps melting?
Is the sea level rising?
According to National Geographic, which of these statements are true:
Sea levels could rise by 5-15 feet by the end of this century.
If all the ice at the poles melted, the sea level could rise by 230 feet.
Under certain realistic conditions, sea levels could rise by 4-6 feet within a single decade.
Antarctica contains about 50% of the world’s ice.
When will Sea Level Rise truly begin to affect coastal regions of the world?
According to NASA Earth Observatory:
The Maldives could be gone by 2050
According to DW News – Asia:
Indonesia is spending $33 billion to relocate its capital to a new city that will be safe from sea
level rise.
According to a US news station:
Bangladesh is already facing a massive humanitarian crisis as 200,000 additional people have moved to the already overcrowded capital city, Dhaka, because their homes along the coast have been taken by the sea. Some reports also indicate that Bangladesh could lose more than 10% of its usable land by 2050.
A little closer to home – According to (https://fostercitylevee.org/)
Foster City, CA (right here in the Bay Area – just 7 miles south of SFO) spent $111 million over the past decade to protect less than 10-miles of coastal land.
Leading Ideas to Address Sea Level Rise
- Building sea walls, levees and other traditional water management structures.
- Creating large scale floating environments so people can live on the water.
- Building a dam from Gibraltar to Morocco to protect those living around the Mediterranean Sea.
- Building a dam under the Golden Gate Bridge to protect those living in the San Francisco Bay area and Central California.
- Building a mega dam around Antarctica to contain the ice melt.
- Creating global cooling – by using biological components such as mangroves, coral reefs and carbon sinks to pull greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, along with inventing technologies capable of changing the chemical balance of the atmosphere.
- Retreating.
But do any of these ideas count as solutions? Most will make things worse, but #6 could help.
The SeaNet Vision – Imagine (part 1)
Imagine transforming massive stretches of the Sahara Desert and western Australia — regions now
barren and sparsely inhabited — into thriving, livable landscapes over the next century.
Imagine that by the 2100s, an aerial view of Australia reveals vast expanses of green forests and blue lakes, instead of endless shades of dry, empty earth.