These interactive maps from National Geographic, showing the likely change in coastline if all the ice on Earth melted due to runaway climate change caused by too many particles of industrial shit in the air, as we have been warned about a million times already, are pretty scary. Antarctica becomes an archipelago. Florida is gone. There are also some places that people would miss.
London. Venice. Holland. Denmark.
Fortunately, at least a partial solution becomes evident just by looking at the maps. There are some positive aspects to this new world configuration and we could figure out how to take advantage of them, to insure the survival of the human race and go forward into a bright new future.
For instance, the New Panama Canal (formerly known as ‘Nicaragua and Costa Rica’) would replace the outdated and narrow old one. The Caspian Sea would become an actual sea instead of just the world’s largest lake and Russia would have it’s warm water port and they could stop messing with everybody. In all probability, world caviar supplies would also increase, and that’s definitely a good thing.
New Orleans, 2054
What interests me the most, though, is the Australian inland sea. They should get cracking on that now, open up a channel. It’s in the middle of absolutely worthless land, and they could finance the project by selling luxury lakefront lots, at affordable middle class prices. Several million of them. One thing that surprised me about the map were a few desert areas which were left relatively untouched, but which might definitely benefit from an inland sea or two. The largest of these, by far, is the Sahara desert – flood that sucker, and save London. More than a fair trade. Also, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the American Southwest. The water is going to rise. But, we can decide where it goes. We have the technology.
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