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Don’t Panic
Personally, I’m excited to see what kind of biomes end up emerging on a melting/melted Antartica.
Well ok, even I’m not pessimistic enough to think I’ll live to see that, in a way that its dramatically different than it is now, but hey, its like uh… a subbranch of speculative evolution, sorta.
Maybe in a 100-200 years we have enough glacial loss and icemelt that West Antarctica might have parts where actual soil is regularly facing the sun.
I think this is a ‘what if all the ice was gone’ map:
Probably 100% cow pastures.
How exactly were the names “East Antarctica” and “West Antarctica” in that map decided? What does “East” and “West” mean at the South Pole?
I googled it:
Image Source: Wikipedia
Anything between lines of longitude 0° - 180° (0° is britain GMT, 180° is opposite side of earth) is EAST.
Anything between 180° to 0 (you can think of as 360°) is WEST.
Thus you have a western hemisphere, which i guess is just tthe americas and british Isles, and an eastern hemisphere, which i guess is most of afroeurasia and australia. This is just about the only way it could’ve worked, but as for where 0 and 180 went, it’s just arbitrary.
I would’ve defined the Levant as the boundary between east and west hemisphere, instead.
Fun Fact
Eastern Antarctica’s ice sheet is older and more well developed than western antarctica. It will probably take longer to melt or collapse than the western half.
Source: Discovering Antarctica
Collapsible bonus image + source
you’re thinking geographic west and east. what other definitions exist for west and east?
Under the US’s political sphere of influence vs China’s?
whose map is this? does the chinese map use different words?
“Most of us” is not “all of us”. Humanity will survive and the survivors will adapt.
Nothing but positivity here.
Always the poor, disabled, marginalised, chronically ill, non first world, will be hit the hardest and die at the highest rates.
When it comes to climate change I’m not sure. We on the poorer side of the world already live in a constant crisis and adaptation and drastically changing our way to live might not hit us as hard as for people in first world countries who are used to a high dependence on industry and globalization. In fact, we’re already slowly adapting without most people even noticing.
My professional advice is to not be any of those things when shit hits the fan.
Tries to wish lifelong chronic illness away
My professional advice is that i expect someone who is involved in environmental prepper groups would be the most protected from climate catastrophe/have the best access to protection when shit hits the fan.
Controversial opinion: I also don’t think shit will hit the fan too bad except for certain countries. But the USA, or parts of it, might be one of those countries. And a lot of nations are at risk.
So maybe neither of these things are whitepilling depending on what your illness is and where you live. But i tried
Have tried being a millionair? That seems to make problems go away quite easily.
I prefer being a millionearth since I walk to places.
Yeah I would still be ill but it would be “oh that sucks and I can afford it” not “my survival is constantly on the line”.
you know what has been really funny all my life. laughing at the rich people in the hospital.
oh wait, i’m not that much of a dick. money doesn’t keep them from being sick, strangely enough.
That’s if we survive WWIII, disease, and climate change.
That’s not how that works. The Sahara savannah is tied to the rotation of the earth on its axis. That takes roughly 23,000 years. The period of time between savannah periods is about 13,000 years and the last one ended roughly 6,000-7,000 years ago. The next one will start in roughly 6,0000-7,000 more years.
This is oversimplified, by a lot. There are many factors impacting Africa’s aridity, including the current glaciation cycle, sea levels as a result thereof, the AMOC, etc.
… Are you aware of any study or perhaps graphic or map based on a studies that… actually tries to model the effects of an AMOC shutdown?
Or maybe ‘signifcant weakening’ or ‘decoherence’ would be a more accurate way to out it?
Because I loosely keep up with Paul Beckwith’s roughly weekly videos and uh… the SMOC ain’t doin so great, and like, currently, and in the last month or two… well, the artctic polar vortex has … more or less been destabilizing… to a rather extreme amount…
Pretty sure that the sahara is classified as a mid latitude desert, similar to the Arabian, the atacama or the great Sandy desert in Australia which are influenced by the Hadley Cells
True, but I’m not trying to write a dissertation while enjoying my morning bowl o weed
Well you were certainly happy to discredit it. If you aren’t willing to explain why, dont speak
It will be, like, an oasis for us in the future!
