There's an article in The Atlantic discussing how humanity is at the point where it will face a major rise in the level of the oceans unless we take drastic action in the next decade. Should we fail to take action, the author says that the oceans as we know them will cease to exist.
It's strange, but the article reminds me of the old film "Atlantic City". Burt Lancaster plays an old small time crook who consistently sees things and says that they're not like they were in the old days. The climax of that arc of comments comes near the end of the film when he looks at the Atlantic Ocean from the boardwalk and comments, "Ah, the ocean. It's not like it was in the old days."
The statement in the movie was ludicrous. So too, the statement in this article is ridiculous.
I've lost count. This is the umpteenth warning of dire peril from the weather or the climate or some other human activity that I heard. In the 1970's scientists warned us of global cooling; and ice age was coming. In the 1960s, the warning was against over population. Humanity would starve as the population grew. We would see widespread famine and the collapse of world civilization by 1980. In the 1980s, we were all going to die from an inevitable nuclear war unless we had a nuclear freeze. In the 1990s, global warming took over as the predominant apocalyptic vision.
None of these end of the world fantasies has occurred. The predictions of the end of the world keep coming, however.
Humanity would do well to remember that we are just tiny beings on a huge planet. All the people in the world could be fit into New York City, thereby leaving the rest of the planet unpopulated.
Remember this: In 1970, that favorite of the environmentalist left, Richard Nixon, started the federal government down the road to cleaning up the country. In the next twenty years, air pollution was reduced in dramatic fashion. Water pollution was greatly reduced. The environment was greatly improved. Rather than focus on the main sources of pollution, however, the environmental left decided to go with global warming. That theory has been shown to be faulty, but the environmentalists ignore the proof. They operate like the flat earth society. They believe so it must be true.
One thing I can guarantee. In 100 years, very, very few people alive today will still be living on earth. The oceans will still be here though.
It's strange, but the article reminds me of the old film "Atlantic City". Burt Lancaster plays an old small time crook who consistently sees things and says that they're not like they were in the old days. The climax of that arc of comments comes near the end of the film when he looks at the Atlantic Ocean from the boardwalk and comments, "Ah, the ocean. It's not like it was in the old days."
The statement in the movie was ludicrous. So too, the statement in this article is ridiculous.
I've lost count. This is the umpteenth warning of dire peril from the weather or the climate or some other human activity that I heard. In the 1970's scientists warned us of global cooling; and ice age was coming. In the 1960s, the warning was against over population. Humanity would starve as the population grew. We would see widespread famine and the collapse of world civilization by 1980. In the 1980s, we were all going to die from an inevitable nuclear war unless we had a nuclear freeze. In the 1990s, global warming took over as the predominant apocalyptic vision.
None of these end of the world fantasies has occurred. The predictions of the end of the world keep coming, however.
Humanity would do well to remember that we are just tiny beings on a huge planet. All the people in the world could be fit into New York City, thereby leaving the rest of the planet unpopulated.
Remember this: In 1970, that favorite of the environmentalist left, Richard Nixon, started the federal government down the road to cleaning up the country. In the next twenty years, air pollution was reduced in dramatic fashion. Water pollution was greatly reduced. The environment was greatly improved. Rather than focus on the main sources of pollution, however, the environmental left decided to go with global warming. That theory has been shown to be faulty, but the environmentalists ignore the proof. They operate like the flat earth society. They believe so it must be true.
One thing I can guarantee. In 100 years, very, very few people alive today will still be living on earth. The oceans will still be here though.
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