New interactive map shows what Earth will look like when all the ice melts
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 one’s 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/
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