Earth Under Water - A Sea Level Rise Documentary

According to this documentary by National Geographic, if sea level where to rise just three feet, 80% of Bangladesh would be underwater, devastating food supply and displacing millions of people.  What would this mean for the Islands within the Pilipinas archipelago?

Earth Under Water - World Wide Flooding and Sea Level Rise

Super-Dams would have to be constructed to protect the Bay from going under...but that wouldn't be the worst of it.  The Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta would be incredibly vulnerable because so much of it is currently at or below sea level -as much as 25 ft below (Spur.org).  The consequences to the food and water supply would stretch great distances from the Bay Area and surrounding regions.
The critical point is that this is a scenario that has enough potential to warrant concern and the stakes are just too high to gamble against.  Isn't it our responsibility to provide for the generations of the future?

According to San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), even if the measures necessary to halt the conditions contributing to Climate Change were taken, certain impacts such the rapid increase of world wide sea level rise is now irreversible.  They estimate that by 2050 sea level will have increased by 16 inches, best case scenario.
What can we possibly do to change our trajectory?  So many still do not take the situation seriously.  I feel urged to determine a sound approach to a "best case scenario" future; a future which has very different variables than I ever imagined would be at play.
Again, the hypotheticals explored in this film only address the consequences of Sea Level Rise.  It does not focus any of the other number of hazardous possibilities human kind faces.
They are cause for at least attention and deserves consideration.
Still business as usual?
I would not bet my family on it.
Even more reason to reassess how the future is approached and just how the role of sustainable culture will play for our descendants.
Strategy not for Armageddon, but for best case scenario...with capability for contingency.


ART Project- Adapting to Rising Tides -San Francisco Community
Sea Level Rise Bay Area, map -Geology.com
SPUR- San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association
Philippines Flood Map -GlobalFloodMap.org
National Geographic
Global Warming Conspiracy Theory??? -Jessie 'The Body' Ventura

Earth 2100_Asking the Question : Is This the Final Century of our Civilization?

Similarities are drawn between a theory for Easter Island's collapse and the realities modern civilization currently faces.

Earth 2100 - A History Channel Documentary aired by ABC.

 A two hour long documentary drama that explores what a worse-case scenario future might look like if the problems we face as a global civilization aren't effectively solved and handled. 
The problems addressed include: climate change, Overpopulation, and Misuse of Energy Resources.

It seems that some viewers had dismissed the film as alarmist.  This wasn't my impression.  The message I got was a hypothetical -yet potential- worse case scenario IF crucial actions aren't taken in time.  Are we/have we taken those steps since 2010?  I don't know as I have not looked further into the status in my detail.
The message came across as more of an eye opener of some very real consequences for a still unwritten future.

ABC News
Earth 2100 -Wiki

Durability vs. Sustainabiltiy_Dr. Guy McPherson

Very interesting argument.

According to Dr Guy McPherson, Sustainability is a Myth and we should instead, prepare ourselves with a capacity for great durability.
Based on the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, where entropy is concerned, he argues that all in existence goes through a process of creation to destruction, thus decay and end is inevitable.
Endurance is the key.
hmmmm

The Myth of Sustainability by Dr. McPherson

Blog:
Nature Bats Last

Peak Oil_Sustainable Food Ecology and Cornell Lecture_Videos

The Problem -Peak Oil -Sustainable Food Ecology

Peak Oil & Peak Everything Lecture at Cornell

James Lovelock Condemns Hope for Avoiding the Catastrophies of Climate Change on Earth

Pessimism kills hope. 

 I was reading an interview held by The Guardian, an on-line media site, with James Lovelock, who echoed a message that a brilliant physics student once told me in Flagstaff AZ: "there really isn't much to look forward to for us humans....  Things are looking pretty bad...  We are past hope."

I conveyed to her that I hear her point of view and agreed that things are looking very bad.  I also expressed it is the non-logical nature of Hope that must never be given up, for it serves as the glue for any efforts that are made to achieve intended change.
At times, I too fear that we may be reaching the threshold of no return and that our future on this Earth will be one of simple survival -for that is where the model of our existence is heading if things don't drastically change.
It is the most reasonable conclusion.

Perhaps even more reason to learn all that is possible in what makes up a sustainable culture.
That, is planning for the future, no matter the scenario we manifest.

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/mar/01/scienceofclimatechange.climatechange

"Lovelock believes global warming is now irreversible, and that nothing can prevent large parts of the planet becoming too hot to inhabit, or sinking underwater, resulting in mass migration, famine and epidemics. Britain is going to become a lifeboat for refugees from mainland Europe, so instead of wasting our time on wind turbines we need to start planning how to survive. To Lovelock, the logic is clear. The sustainability brigade are insane to think we can save ourselves by going back to nature; our only chance of survival will come not from less technology, but more.
Nuclear power, he argues, can solve our energy problem - the bigger challenge will be food..."  -article excerpt, theguardian 

No matter what the future looks like, we must never abandone hope.  

The day we do is the day we cease to be human.

Who is James Lovelock:

Website_Jameslovelock.org

Wiki

For a more Sustainable Future:

Occidental Arts and Ecology Center

Asian Rural Institute

Education for Sustainablilty

Gaia University