The world is divided in many different ways. We are divided by invisible national boundaries, which carve up the land into different countries. Seas and continents separate us, which force us to live apart. Aside from that, we are also separated by religion, culture, and language. Because of all this, it is sometimes hard to remember that we are all one human race, and we all need to work together to deal with some of the issues that could change the face of the whole planet.
There is a problem of rising sea levels; regardless of whether or not you believe that climate change is caused by human activity, it is impossible to deny that climate change is happening. As glaciers melt and sea levels rise, at first that will only be a problem for low-lying countries that aren't far above sea level like the Netherlands then it will move on to towns and cities which sit on the coastline. Ten percent of the whole population of the world live in regions that are less than 30 feet above sea level and all of them would be at risk. Cities like Miami, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, and Osaka would all be at risk within a century, if sea levels continue to rise at the current rate of projection.
Island nations would be washed away. Entire ecosystems would be irreversibly damaged which cause knock-on effects on the food would chain that all human beings rely on for sustenance. This problem is potentially lethal and it is a sort of thing that we should definitely be more conscious of and doing more about. There may be a bigger danger facing the whole planet though and one which almost nobody is paying any attention to at all and that is the risk of a cataclysmic shift in the orientation of the world's magnetic poles. It is hard to imagine how such a thing could occur but factors like global warming could be a factor perhaps more likely though, is the risk of an asteroid striking the earth.
Scientists believe that this is the most likely reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs and we may be well overdue for such an event happening again. Working on the likelihood of a magnetic pole reversal has been a lifetime's work for Gordon Michael Scallion, a futurist and meta physicist. His terrifying vision of the future is a planet that has been torn apart by floods. Scallion remains open-minded on the potential causes of magnetic pole shift theorizing that nuclear activity, global warming or the misuse of future could all potentially play a part. Along with the possibility of an asteroid strike, he feels that it's precisely because there are so many potential causes that we should be taking the threat more seriously. As an example, if a volcanic chain reaction occurred under the Earth's crust and made Italy's Mount Etna and Martinique's Mount Pele erupt at the same time, there would be a shift of the poles between 20 and 45 degrees. The resultant flood would overrun the west coast of America within 90 days. 20 to 45 degrees would be a disastrous shift but a total reversal of the poles would be far worse. However, how likely is it to happen? The NEOWISE mission at NASA keeps track of all potentially hazardous objects out in space, which could pose a risk, however small of striking the earth. The mission has so far uncovered 250 previously unknown objects; four of them are brand new comments and seventy-two of them are classified as near-earth objects. Not all of them are large enough to cause such a catastrophic effect but some of them are.
Right now, NASA's own impact wrist of the chart lists 2020 as having an increased risk of dangerous object activity. In Iraq and space, more than half a mile wide would pose a risk to the entire population of the earth if it crashed into the planet's surface. There are 90 of them currently close to the earth. None of them is currently believed to pose a threat but even one of half that size would be enough to shift the magnetic poles.
If there is no immediate risk of a global disaster, why are so many of the world's super rich buying safe holds and high dry lands? Have they been told something that the rest of us have not? Not only are they buying safe land but they're also buying places where conditions are ideal for coal mining, farming cattle and otherwise being self-reliant. In the USA, the ideal places are to be found in New Mexico, Montana, Texas and Wyoming. Billionaire John Malone currently owns over two million acres of land in Colorado and Wyoming. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has acquired 400,000 acres of land in Texas. TV mogul Ted Turner has two million acres of his own split across North Dakota, New Mexico, Nebraska and Montana. Stan cranky has taken on over 250,000 acres of Montana and land. Bill Gates has gone even further; the Microsoft founder is building his very own micro city in Belmont. A city he views as being a cutting-edge utopia of technology, manufacturing, communication and distribution. In short, he's building metropolis in an area, which is currently nothing but dry land. This trend is not uniquely American, Farmland is currently selling at record rates in New Zealand, Australia, Great Britain and Europe. Curiously, helipads are appearing outside the mansions of the super-rich at almost the same rate. It is almost as if they are planning for a quick getaway.
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