Your chance to be Omniscient, Wise & Forward Thinking (Page 3)

General answer: I live halfway up a mountain, so I won't actually flood. I'm also well inland. The county I live in is about 90 % forest. I'm already armed. And in 50 years I'll be 105 years old. Ok, I get that the oceans backing up into the rivers may also contaminate lakes,(although I would think there would be more than two feet of drop between most lakes and the ocean and between the headwaters of almost any river and the ocean) but rain will still fall, right? Just as much rain as ever, maybe more, right? So why will there be a fresh water shortage? Don't you think that some lakes will not be contaminated, and that we can build barriers to prevent the contamination, allowing one-way flow, and also find ways to trap and contain rainwater? I think this would probably be more cost-effective than massive desalinization. I have seen several houses with their raingutters piped into a cistern for fresh water. It works in an area with rain. I like Spokes' ideas on space exploration, unrelated to this scenario. Whey I was but a lad, I thought by now we would be WAY further along on this. We skidded to a halt after reaching the moon. What a shame. By now, we were supposed to have undersea colonies, too. Which may be a good idea given Renee's scenario. I like to train a few dolphins and become a fish-rancher. Get along, little tuna! yeeha!

This sounds like something out of Jeremy Rifkin's entropy and other such modern day philosophy. Reminds me of a paper I had to write and defend back in the day. The fact is that our planet is dynamic and ever changing, we are just speeding the process along in some respects. What real benefit is there to the planet if we save ourselves 1000 years from what is inevitable anyway. There is still the possibility that the Yellow Stone could possibly erupt, a big asteroid could hit us, Nuclear War...and the list goes on. That fact is that if you survive you learn to adapt or die, and I cannot predict who that person is inside of me.

Hank: really good points in your first paragraph. You didn't write the script for the Starship Troopers movie, did you? Because one character said that about The Bugs.  

I live at 1100 feet. I'd break out the jelly beans and sit back and laugh at everyone who was more misfortunate than me. I'm a misanthrope.

So long suckers!