Posted on 12/28/2007 5:25:17 AM PST by Bulldawg Fan
The future political map of America is likely to look a lot different, with much of the so-called “red” state region either gone or depopulated.Sat., 12/22/2007 - 19:21—Say what you will about the looming catastrophe facing the world as the pace of global heating and polar melting accelerates. There is a silver lining.
Look at a map of the US.
The area that will by completely inundated by the rising ocean—and not in a century but in the lifetime of my two cats—are the American southeast, including the most populated area of Texas, almost all of Florida, most of Louisiana, and half of Alabama and Mississippi, as well as goodly portions of eastern Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. While the northeast will also see some coastal flooding, its geography is such that that aside from a few projecting sandbars like Long Island and Cape Cod, the land rises fairly quickly to well above sea level. Sure, Boston, New York and Philadelphia will be threatened, but these are geographically confined areas that could lend themselves to protection by Dutch-style dikes. The West Coast too tends to rise rapidly to well above sea level in most places. Only down in Southern California towards the San Diego area is the ground closer to sea level.
So what we see is that huge swaths of conservative America are set to face a biblical deluge in a few more presidential cycles.
Then there’s the matter of the Midwest, which climate experts say is likely to face a permanent condition of unprecedented drought, making the place largely unlivable, and certainly unfarmable. The agribusinesses and conservative farmers that have been growing corn and wheat may be able to stretch out this doomsday scenario by deep well drilling, but west of the Mississippi, the vast Ogallala Aquifer that has allowed for such irrigation is already being tapped out. It will not be replaced.
So again, we will see the decline and depopulation of the nation’s vast midsection—noted for its consistent conservatism. Only in the northernmost area, around the Great Lakes (which will be not so great anymore), and along the Canadian border, will there still be enough rain for farming and continued large population concentrations, but those regions, like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois, are also more liberal in their politics.
Finally, in the Southwest, already parched and stiflingly hot, the rise in energy costs and the soaring temperatures will put an end to right-wing retirement communities like Phoenix, Tucson and Palm Springs. Already the Salton Sea is fading away and putting Palm Springs on notice that the good times are coming to an end. Another right-wing haven soon to be gone.
So the future political map of America is likely to look as different as the much shrunken geographical map, with much of the so-called “red” state region either gone or depopulated.
There is a poetic justice to this of course. It is conservatives who are giving us the candidates who steadfastly refuse to have the nation take steps that could slow the pace of climate change, so it is appropriate that they should bear the brunt of its impact.
The important thing is that we, on the higher ground both actually and figuratively, need to remember that, when they begin their historic migration from their doomed regions, we not give them the keys to the city. They certainly should be offered assistance in their time of need, but we need to keep a firm grip on our political systems, making sure that these guilty throngs who allowed the world to go to hell are gerrymandered into political impotence in their new homes.
There will be much work to be done to help the earth and its residents—human and non-human—survive this man-made catastrophe, and we can’t have these future refugee troglodytes, should their personal disasters still fail to make them recognize reality, mucking things up again.
It should be considered acceptable, in this stifling new world, to say, “Shut up. We told you this would happen.”
Has there ever been a clearer reason why the MSM is dying? Ocassionally you come across something so eye poppingly stupid that you have to comment. Here we have the compassion of the left on display, a desciple of Al Gore taking the myth of Global warming to the next logical step, destroy the South and southern California for political gain. I guess flooding half the country is the only way anyone would move back to the north east, that mecca of understanding and knowledge. And all this will happen before his cats die? Oh well, he is one vote for Kucinich...
On the one side we have the War on Terror— WOT.
The other side has the War on Climate Terror—WOCT.
Surf’s Up!
Liberals will be extinct before any global warming heats up. Like the Shakers, they will self-select themselves out of existence in order to save the planet....
...we need to keep a firm grip on our political systems...
and how ya gonna do that Bluebelly?..we is acoming but we is abringing our shooting irons too.
Last I checked you was...howdaysay?...Defenseless! That’s it:
Liberal, arrogant, vindictive, stupid and defenseless. Dave baby, you are doomed. We told you so!
Personnaly I don't like cold and that begins at about 70 degrees.
Isn’t the accepted rate of Global Warming from the ‘experts’ about .5 or 1 degree Celcius over a hundred years?
The lines between Liberalism and Communism/Facism blur just a little more. Without invoking the "H" name, there have been a few other dictators this past century who thought this way, too.
People live near water, and those urban areas are largely liberal Democratic. Is this guy for real?
"South America this year experienced one of its coldest winters in decades. In Buenos Aires, snow fell for the first time since the year 1918. Dozens of homeless people died from exposure. In Peru, 200 people died from the cold and thousands more became infected with respiratory diseases. Crops failed, livestock perished, and the Peruvian government declared a state of emergency."
Much to the chagrin of this commie creep, none of 'em were Republicans.
LOL! And not just the north east, but the compassionate leftie urban north east (forget rural areas). Thanks for the post. Great read.
So again, we will see the decline and depopulation of the nation’s vast midsection—noted for its consistent conservatism.
If the vast conservative midsection is being depopulated, it's because of the urban left's massive taxation for their own use and the loss of rural job sources driving folks to the city in search of work. To pay the taxes to fund the left's entitlements.
Here in rural PA we routinely hear of new 'ideas' coming out of Philly and Harrisburg on how to tax us (share the misery) to help pay for crumbling Philly. (No offense to Philly freepers.)
Denver Co broke an 1894 record for most snowfall on Christmas Day...
They sure could use some Glowbull warming there.
French scientist calls Gore a ‘crook’ and his followers ‘religious zealots’...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aVvwX1RTVGr8&refer=muse
The more enlightened liberals among us *must* be spared.
I tell ya, this article is excellent insight into how they think. While I am not a supporter of liberalism, I don't wish them all dead.
He did a lot of hand waving and said that dikes could be built around coastal cities...
~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~
“making sure that these guilty throngs who allowed the world to go to hell are gerrymandered into political impotence in their new homes.”
Sooooo, If your a republican in the North you are ok, it is just the Midwest and southern Republicans that guilty of wrecking the planet. (I mean I knew they all talked funny but really!)
This neo-malthusianism never goes away. It seems it has no rules and no boundaries: whatever disaster you can imagine is true.
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