climate change
Jul 18, 2008

POLAR CITIES ENVISIONED FOR SURVIVORS OF GLOBAL WARMING

In my encore career, after not really having a career all my life, just coasting through life job by job, over 40 years, I started the Polar Cities Research Institute to advocate for the planning and siting of polar cities for future survivors of global warming which will reduce human population from 10 billion people in 2200 to just 200,000 people in 2500, living in polar cities, aka Lovelock Retreats.

Of course, nobody takes me seriously, but I am dead serious. At age 60, semi-retired, and without any retirement fund or financiak cushion or pension, I have embarked an an encore career of quixotic proportions and I love it.

See my work here, as reported by the New York Times on March 21, 2008:

http://pcillu101.blogspot.com

Life is not all about money! There are other things to think about too, like the future of our planet. That is what I am doing for my encore career, not that anybody is listening.

by danny bloom
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Submitted by danny bloom on July 20, 2008 - 5:50pm.

Thanks, George Wolf, for your encouraging words and good comments. Yes, a sci fi book or movie would be a good way to illustrate what polar cities would be like. And as sci fi, the idea would not scare people, just entertain them. At the moment, my idea of polar cities IS scaring people and NOT ONE newspaper in the USA will print a story about what I am doing. Not one. The New York Times did report on polar cities, but only online in a science blog written by a Times reporter, but the news has never been reported in a print newspaper yet. Yet. I soldier on. I am trying to sound the alarm. It’s interesting work. I hope others will join me.

 

George, if you are reading this, email me offline at danbloom GMAIL

Polar Cities Project

Submitted by George Wolf on July 19, 2008 - 1:16pm.

Your ideas are brilliant and fall into the category of Science Fiction, a la Ray Bradbury and others, whose artistic sensitivity created fantastic images that later became reality. Whether the remainder of pitiful survivors will have to crawl into holes to survive or whether science will come up with some kind of world-wide reflective ozone layers that will keep earth cooler, or even devise some sort of worldwide air conditioning, as well as the number of humans in the world at that time, remains to be seen and none of us now alive will get there.

 You mention that you are without pension or retirement funds. I suggest turning your ideas into a science fiction BOOK, perhaps with the help of a ghost writer if you are not experienced or talented as writer, and getting a good agent who can sell your even aqs yet unwritten book at a good upfront price to one of the pubishers specialising in this field. Good luck!