Apropos of nothing to do with this blog, but before I forget, I just saw an interesting column on BuzzFeed regarding 23 Insults That Use Zero Swearwords.
Some of these are “so-so soup,” as it were, but I added a couple to my personal arsenal, including “You’re impossible to underestimate” and “As an outsider, what’s your perspective on intelligence?” and — my personal favorite (paraphrased from Shakespeare) — “I wish we could become better strangers.”
But we digress… The topic of this blog is a column I ran across on Forbes featuring Shocking Doomsday Maps of the World.
Upon reading this column, we discover that these maps were created in the 1980s by Gordon-Michael Scallion, who was a futurist, a teacher of consciousness studies and metaphysics, and a spiritual visionary. Oooh, I wonder if Gordon-Michael could answer the questions of consciousness raised in my recent Who Am I? Where Am I? blog.
Although Gordon-Michael’s maps were not based on any actual science (completely unlike the planet depicted in my Living on a World of Blueberries blog), they paint a stunning picture, which is made all the more poignant by the recent news that Climate Change is Driving the Entire Planet to a Dangerous Tipping Point.
It’s more than a little ironic that the world is Running out of Fresh Water while, at the same time, being overrun by rising sea levels.
Are you as scared by the possibility of a climatic catastrophe as am I, or do you take a more sanguine view, such as that offered — as seen in this video — by one of the world’s (albeit self-professed) climate experts?
On the one hand, I don’t want to live in a flooded world as portrayed in the science fiction tome New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson. On the other hand, I can’t help but wonder what it would be like to take a cruise ship around the inner African seas as depicted by Gordon-Michael Scallion. What say you?
View global warning video at global warning.com
I think you meant “GlobalWarming.com” (not “GlobalWarning.com”) — but I’m not seeing a video there (at first glance, which is all I have time for)
https://www.globalwarningdocumentary.com/en/
Ah — there it is — this looks interesting (not least that, from the trailer, I can’t work out which side he’s on — maybe he’s neutral — it’s also interesting because my Canadian cousin spent his working life in the oil fields of Alberta) — I’ll add it to my list of things to watch when I have some free time — thanks for sharing
I asked Mr. Google how much the ocean is rising and what the climate scientists say is 0.14 to 0.25 inches per year (of course they said it in mm). Let’s assume the worst case of 0.25 inches per year, or 2.5 inches every decade. Being over 70 myself, I think I can live with 2.5 inches of sea-level rise over the next 10-20 years without drowning. I believe the map of the world would not differ much from what it is today. Sorry for being selfish. I know, I know, what about the shellfish, can they survive?
What worries me more right now are the fires, drought, and man’s attempt to change the climate to make it suitable. Seriously, does anybody think we are smart enough to change the climate and not ruin more than we fix? And who will decide what the “correct” climate is across the planet?
“…does anybody think we are smart enough to change the climate and not ruin more than we fix?” Well, if by “we” you mean “Americans,” then I think I can speak for the rest of the world by saying “No” — I think you’ll have to leave it to good old English ingenuity to save the day 🙂
Note to self: Don’t invite Max to my next tea party.
You didn’t invite me to your last tea party!
I’m inclined to agree that fire and drought are much greater concerns that sea level rise. Of course, I live in an area that is well above sea level and seems to be downwind of a number of this year’s crop of wildfires…
And so far I don’t see that our attempts to “fix” things have really done much good.
The way things are going, I’m scared to think what the world will be like in 2100
This isn’t based on the global warming rising sea level hocus pocus. This is based on a possible scenario where there is an impact of some large body from outer space that sets off tectonic and volcanic activity with the ring of fire going “active” and possibly the earth tilting some, along with the current pole shift underway.
I just find these maps to be really interesting — I think about a world like this without any people apart from me and some friends sailing around on an ever-powered super yacht equipped with food replicators and suchlike… sorry — daydreaming again 🙂
Gordon-Michael’s map is quite interesting in that it seems to subscribe to the concept of rising sea level and does seem to recognize the mountainous regions of the earth. I am not sure how accurate the maps are, But it loses all credibility ( yes I know it is science fiction) because Atlantis has re-emerged from beneath the waves despite the rising sea level.
unless the land mass of Atlantis displaced the water to create the rising sea level, and not the melting of the polar ice caps.
I missed Atlantis before, which is embarrassing because it’s so big — about the size of France and Spain combined — I had no idea it was so big — I also had no idea it was located off the coast of Portugal (as you can see if you zoom in on this image: https://bit.ly/3ABj9xM). Also, you raise an interesting point in that — if Altlantis sunk below the sea and the sea is rising, what’s it doing back again? I think Gordon-Michael has some questions to answer 🙂
I bought kayaks just in case.
You are wise beyond your years grasshopper
A while back, a peer review paper had the temperature increasing at twice the rate. Englishman, Nic Lewis pointed out scientific error. Peer reviewed! There is a lot of objectivity missing in the world. As engineers, question everything.
“…engineers, question everything…” All engineers? LOL