In Superman when Jor-El (Superman's dad) realizes that Krypton is doomed, he builds the little spaceship to send his son to earth otherwise little Kal-El would have perished with the other folks on the planet.
There's a lot of media attention on Global Warming these days. Almost everyday, there is a story about a glacier melting, the seas rising and other ways in which this planet is doomed. Are there any Noahs out there building boats for that day? Any Ka-El's building spaceships to save their children? Or more likely, is there anyone out there trying to cash in on the the future of Global Warming? Are there Lex Luthors buying real estate based on what the future map of the world might look like? Are there people moving away from the low lying areas.... say New York City so that X number of years from now they won't have to worry about their houses being under water?
And if it's not happening now, and Global Warming continues, what will be the tipping point? When will the profiteers start to look for ways to cash in? Should we be investigating who is invested in the sunscreen companies?
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Hello Z, I enjoy this blog. I know that the Netherlands have made state of the art deltas for their own safety based on historic floods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works) and they have already paid off some farmers who's land is expected to be underwater based on the polar ice caps melting.
Also, watch out for a battle for the North Pole. Canada, Norway, Russia and the US are already positioning themselves for ownership of shiplanes as the ice melts and the possibility of finding oil at the top of the world. Russia has made the first shot: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=464921&in_page_id=1811
That's a really good point about how important really sophisticated deltas could be in the future. I saw a Modern Marvels special on those the deltas in the Netherlands and have plans to blog about it in the future.
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