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New interactive map shows what Earth will look like when all the ice melts
By CleanTechnica
Sunday, February 9, 2014 10:16 EST
This new interactive map from National Geographic really drives that point home with only slightly elevated sea levels (or diminished, such as during the last ice age) the whole of the world appears to change. Every coastline, every river, every mountain the context of everything changes, and you appear to be somewhere quite different from where you were before.
Bringing to mind the fact that much of the lands where humans lived during the last ice age (the coasts, caves, and river systems of the time) is now deep underwater is a good way to understand the point being made. The world that awaits those that are still living even only 500 years from now will no doubt be a very different one from the one we live in now.
As an example, some of the most biologically productive land of the last 50,000 years an area with extensive signs of human habitation Doggerland (the area between the UK and mainland Europe that is now a sea), was until only 6000 years ago heavily populated by humans (and unicorns). But if one were to look at the region now, all that they would see is an open sea, no signs of the lives of the people that lived there at all.
That sort of awareness is the kind that should be brought to mind when contemplating ones participation in the modern industrial system, and in the causation of anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation something that everyone that participates in modern culture is complicit in.
More:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/09/new-interactive-map-shows-what-earth-will-look-like-when-all-the-ice-melts/
pscot
(21,024 posts)was once the Rhine delta.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)bananas
(27,509 posts)They must use some non-standard html crap.
bananas
(27,509 posts)Their web page isn't working, why should I bother anyway, it's probably fake.
A notable case of a controversial photo manipulation was a 1982 National Geographic cover in which editors photographically moved two Egyptian pyramids closer together so that they would fit on a vertical cover. This case triggered a debate about the appropriateness of photo manipulation in journalism;[citation needed] the argument against editing was that the magazine depicted something that did not exist, and presented it as fact.
bananas
(27,509 posts)UFOS: THE UNTOLD STORIES
Tuesday 11 February at 6:00PM
National Geographic Channel
LOL - news aggregator enenews was banned - they just report the news, but "scientifical" national geographic - which actually makes shit up - that's a valid site!
Oh the irony!