Chris McGuire
Web strategy and development, social media strategy, setup and implementation, mobile marketing & development, content development including video production.
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By Chris
Mar 7th 2010
Great Climate Change Discussion
Caitlin asked if I wanted to listen to a 3 hour podcast on climate change. I didn’t have any cyanide on me at the time so agreed (kidding…It did sound interesting). Now a lot of the information I already knew but it was the hypothetical scenarios they played out which interested me. The podcast was called Climate Wars.
In 2045, southern France will have to invade northern France to get water. Spain will be arming themselves with nuclear weapons to threaten countries like Canada who have been less effected by climate change and therefore have more food. Most of the rice fields in Asia which feed billions of people no longer exist due to the sea levels rising. Rice cannot be grown in salt water!
These were all worst case scenarios and did not take into account any of the technological advances we will make between now and then but its a scary prospect. The podcast had ex military talking about how the government has been planning for the worst for some time and how they will deal with the potential fall out.
I think the biggest source of concern is the methane released from the Permafrost. Here is a video showing the effects of the Permafrost melting which came up when I googled for more information. If it’s already melting, is there a way we can collect the gasses and turn it into a source of fuel? Just a thought.
You can listen to all 3 podcasts on the CBC site here – http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/climate-wars/index.html. I will be fine…but the children of my children are f*&%@d.
March 31, 20108:29 AM
http://www.fineweber.com
I listened to that last year, it was pretty amazing. The freakiest part was, “look towards the equator – whatever the closest country to you is in BETWEEN you and there is the country that you are most likely to get trouble from.” Yike.
December 22, 20103:16 PM
http://seanwcunnin.com
Excellent link! I’m writing a post-apocalypsish fiction story about this kind of scenario. Also, you’re probably going to be around in 35 years, so you can add yourself to the list of ppl who are fbxrd