As global warming melts glaciers at
both
poles and sea levels rise, maps all over the world will have
to be redrawn. Coastal towns in Florida may disappear and so may
Boston and New Orleans. In other parts of the world,
drought
is causing rivers to dry up. For instance, the Dead Sea is 82
feet lower than it was half a century ago, and may not
appear on future maps at all.
In ABC News, Clayton Sandell quotes global warming activist
Edward Mazria as saying, "We're not talking about South Sea
islands and Bangladesh here. We're talking about the US
being physically under siege with a very small increment of
sea level rise."
As an architect, Mazria knows where to place the blame. He
says, "The building sector is responsible for close to half of all
energy consumption in this country and close to half of all
greenhouse gas emissions?Seventy-six percent of the energy
produced in this country goes just to operating buildings.
That's heating, lighting, cooling and hot water."
The Guardian newspaper in the UK reports that "the Arctic ice
cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer and
levels of sea ice in the region now stand at record lows,"
adding that experts are "stunned." A piece of Arctic ice twice
as big as the UK has simply fallen into the ocean. The paper
quotes Arctic ice specialist Mark Serreze as saying, "It's
amazing. It's simply fallen off a cliff and we're still losing ice."
In LiveScience.com, Andrea Thompson quotes cartographer
(map maker) Mick Ashworth as saying, "We can literally see
environmental disasters unfolding before our eyes. We have a
real fear that in the near future famous geographical features
will disappear forever."
One thing is certain: the maps
our
children will use as adults will be very different from the
ones we're familiar with.
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