The Jewish people must face scenario of 'climate change' chaos in future times

The Jewish people must face the very real scenario of millions of 'climate change
refugees' in dire peril in future times

In two important news articles about climate
change ("How much more proof is needed for people to act" and
"Ignoring the future -- the psychology of denial"), the importance of
facing major issues that will confront the future of the Jiewsh people
were emphasized. Not only is the state of Israel threatened by climate
change and rising sea levels, but the descendants of Jews around
the world -- wherever they live: North America, Europe, New Zealand,
South Africa, Australia -- will be under threat.

Climate change is indeed an issue that is on everyone's mind today,
and Jewish scientists and Jewish thinkers will be on the front line of
these issues in the future, too.
The world as we know it today may very well not be the world of
tomorrow, and the very survival of the Jewish people, as a people,
will be at stake. And more: the very
existence of the human species, our kind, homosapiens, will be on alert.

Despite most observers thinking that solutions lie in mitigation
ideas, there are a growing number of Jeiwsh climatologists and
scientists who believe that the A-word -- adaptation -- must be
confronted head-on, too. The fact is, despite the head-in-the-sand
protestations of climate denialists -- which some observers compare
Holcaust deniers as well -- we cannot stop climate change or global
warming.

The Earth's atmosphere has already passed the tipping point, and in
the next 100 to 300 years, temperatures will rise considerably, sea
levels will rise considerably and millions, even billions, of people
from the tropical and temperate zones of the Earth will be forced to
migrate north in search of food, fuel and shelter. This is where Jews
in particular, will play central roles.

By the year 2200, Israel could be no more. The entire Middle East will
have been abandonned for polar cities up north in Scandanavia, Russia
and Canada. Alaska, too.

Alaska and New Zealand and Tasmania could be home to millions, even
billions, of climate refugees from India and China and other Asia
nations who will have migrated north and south, seeking safe harbor
from the devastating impact of global warming in those future times.
Are the Jewish people, in Israel and in the Diaspora, ready for this?

Many parts of the world's coastlines will be under water, and many
northern countries will find themselves home to new kinds of visitors
from Asia and Europe. Just ask
Laurence C. Smith at UCLA; he wrote a book about this, setting his
story in 2050. These climate refugees won't be coming on cruise ships
or airplanes, since there will be no fuel for such services. They will
be coming by rudimentary sailing vessels and barges. Prepare
yourselves. It could be Noah's Ark all over again. It could be God's
Judgement all over again, if you
believe in such things.

Jews must be prepared for the worst-case scenario. By 2500, millions,
billions of people will have been forced to leave their home countries
in the tropical and temperate zones and migrate south en masse to
faraway southern regions to find shelter in United Nations-funded
climate refuges in northern places. Lifeboat Israel? Forget it.
Israel will be no more, if
climate chaos gets as bad as British scientist James Lovelock says it
well. Lovelock is 90, and he says he's ''an optimist''. Say that
again? Is he using Jewish humor there

It won't be a pretty picture -- what's coming, that is. Am I a
prophet? No. Am I a visionary? No. I am just a Jewish realist looking
directly at what's most likely coming our way in the distant
future. I'm prepared. My Jewish upbringing and Jewish education has
prepared me to face reality. I realize not everyone agrees with me on
these ideas, but that's par for the course when you
go out on a limb and try to sound the alarm. And I am not talking
about a posh golf course here. Enough of that! I am talking about the
future of our people Israel! Is anyone concerned about that?

Humans cannot engineer our way out of global warming, although
scientists who believe in geo-engineering have offered their theories
on how to do it. There are no easy fixes.

Humankind has put too many greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the
result of the industrial revolution that gave us trains, plans and
automobiles - and much more to live comfortable and trendy lives - and
now there is so much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that the Earth
cannot recover. Forget trying to be more "green" in our daily lives.
Israel and the Jewish people is doomed, like the rest of the world, to
a very bleak future. The Bible does not even come close to what is in
store for us all.

What we need to focus on now is preparing future generations for what
our world will become in the next 100 to 300 years and how best to
survive it. The national legislatures of all countires need to start
thinking about these issues. Now. In many ways, it's already too late?
How's that for optimism? And I am an optimist, yes!

For the next 100 years or so, life will go on as normal in Israel and
North America, so don't worry too much. There is nothing to worry
about now. For the next 100 years, posh department stores will
continue to hawk their trendy items, international computer firms will
continue to launch their latest cell phones and tech gadgets, and
airline companies will continue to offer passengers quick passage here
and there, to the Maldives and to Manhattan, for business and for
pleasure.

But in the next 500 years, according to Lovelock and other scientists
-- many of whom are Jewish -- who are not afraid to think outside the
box, things are going to get bad. Unspeakably bad. Those of us who are
alive today won't suffer, and the next few generations of humans will
be fine, too. The big troubles will probably start around 2200 -
Lovelock says sooner - and last for some 300 years or so. By 2200,
Israel and the entire Middle East will be uninhabitable and
uninhabited. Mark my words. I am not joking here.

Prepare yourselves, o ye who think this is all science fiction. In
fact, this is science fact!


We are entering uncharted waters, and as the waters rise and the
temperatures go up as well, future generations of the Jewish people
will have some important choices to make: where to live, how to live,
how to grow food, how to power their climate refugee settlements, how
to plan and how to pray. Alaska will be on the front lines of this new
world. Canada and Russia, too. The question is: will the human race be
ready for what is going to be the most trying time of our very
existence on this Earth?

NOTE:
This blog is the founder of the Polar Cities Project, (http://pcillu101.blogspot.com/
). It would be nice to say the author here is kidding,
but apparently he's not.

DRAFT COVER book, files PRIVATE VIEWING ONLY, ..db, april 14, 2012

Prelimary cover, will add some more visuals to foreground, but this is basically THE COVER !!! I love it.

A Vision of Polar Cities in Oxford, Oxfordshire by "James Lovelock's accidental studnet"

OXFORD -- A pioneering yet mostly unheralded American climate activist
told an audience in a pub last night in Oxford, Oxfordshire that the
age of ''polar cities'' is fast coming upon us. The bloke, who often
introduces himself and did last night as "James Lovelock's accidental
student" -- since his ideas of polar cities for survivors of global
warming where residents
will serve as "breeding pairs in the Arctic" -- was speaking to an
audience at Scibar, a monthly scientific moot, at the Port Mahon pub
here.

The 62 year old climate activist was presenting
ideas from his book, ''A Vision of Polar Cities'', which will come out in
paperback in March next year.

He said: “There will come a time when billions of humans will die
in a massive human die off, and the world
will be reduced to just 200,000 souls trying desperately to survive in
about 100 isolated polar cities scattered around the northern
regions."

He said that
these ideas are not original and that they are not his, and that he
owes everything to the ideas of Dr Lovelock in Cornwall, who was in
the audience last night, too. Well,
his spirit was. The good scientist was resting comfortably at his home up north.

COULD THIS BE START OF REAL COLD WAR?

The US, Canada, Norway and Russia have all beefed up their naval presence in Arctic waters

Sunday October 23, 2080 AD
By Will Stewart
http://pcillu101.blogspot.com/
RUSSIA is to build an ultra-modern polar city on a frozen island inside the Arctic Circle in the Kremlin’s latest bid to back its claims to vast oil and gas ­reserves under the polar ice cap.

Named Umka after a popular Soviet-era cartoon polar bear cub, the city’s 5,000 residents will live under a vast dome to protect them from winter ­temperatures of well below -30C.

Architect Valery Rzhevskiy, who has shown the designs to Kremlin strongman Vladimir Putin, said: “This city will be of strategic importance as ­Russia’s northern outpost.”



Sources say it will house soldiers, border guards and secret service officers, as well as scientists and explorers, as Moscow gets serious about its claims to Arctic mineral riches.



All will enjoy a luxury lifestyle in the cocooned city, which will have its own specially regulated climate as well as a ­variety of other attractive features.



Mr Rzhevskiy added: “We aim to have laboratories, houses, but also parks, an Aqua complex, hotels and a cathedral. Naturally there will be schools, kindergartens, recreation zones, a hospital and sport facilities.



“We want people who will be living and working here not to realise they are in some closed space with an ­aggressive Arctic climate outside.”



Nicknamed “wonder city”, it will be built at a cost of up to £4billion on the remote ­island of Kotelny, in the Novosibirsk archipelago, 1,000 miles from the North Pole.



Strong winds make it one of the most inhospitable places on the planet. Even in July the temperature barely climbs above freezing.



The Umka designs are based on the International Space Station, but it is vast by comparison, just short of a mile long and 800 yards wide.



“So far it is the only project in the world with an artificial climate and ­integral life support, just like on the space station,” Mr Rzhevskiy said.



“Not only is it a new word in architecture but in human living too. We have used aero and space technologies while creating it.”



Electricity will be supplied by a floating nuclear power station. It will be totally self-sufficient with fish and poultry farms, greenhouses, a wheat processing factory and bakeries.



“There will not be any rubbish at all, as the city will have two factories converting it into all kinds of ashes.”



It will house workers for mines and oil platforms which should pay the costs of the development, it is claimed.



“This project is designed to work on any surface, even on the Moon if needed,” added Mr Rzhevskiy.



Although it has no fixed timetable for opening, the ice city plans come as all countries with territory touching ­Arctic waters are gearing up to submit competing demands to the United Nations for underwater mineral exploitation rights. Western countries were stung when, in 2007, Russian polar ­explorer Artur Chilingarov planted his country’s flag in the Arctic sea bed.



“We must prove the North Pole is an extension of the Russian land mass,” he said at the time.



A Canadian think-tank this year voiced fears of a risk of conflict over the area, saying “an arms race may be ­beginning”.



The US, Canada, Norway and Russia have all beefed up their naval presence in Arctic waters amid warnings of a new Cold War that really could turn out to be cold, ­except perhaps at Umka.

UMKA follows the Polar Cities meme with a nice illustration of the future of a polar city design in Russia in 2080 AD

http://www.businessinsider.com/umka-russia-arctic-2011-10


Umla is a bold vision and bravo for this kind of foward thinking. Readers might want to google "polar cities" as a theme and topic to my designs for 144 polar cities located in

northern climes within the next 500 years, possibly as early as 2080 AD! Deng Cheng-hong, google him, did the illustrations for me, and they point in the same direction as Umka. Thing is, life in a polar city, where as James Lovellock has said, survivors of climate chaos will live in rugged tragedy as breeding pairs in the Arctic, life in these polar cities will be technicolor and grooby as these designs show, but rather life will be mean, cruel and tragic. Out of 16 billion humans, only 200,000 will survive the coming climate catatrophes headed out way. Don't bury your head in the sand. wake up. Umka is another good wake up call. Larry Smith at UCLA will love this work too. Go go go......and go visit my polar cities pages online at

http://pcillu101.blogspot.com/


http://www.businessinsider.com/umka-russia-arctic-2011-10#comment-4ea6acee69bedd9246000032#ixzz1bnUYgSHV

ADAM TAYLOR at BusinessInsider.com touches on the polar city meme: hat tip to Torch Pratt in Taipei for the heads up!


A Look At 'Umka', The Domed Russian City Planned For Sub-Zero Arctic Temperatures

Adam Taylor
Oct. 24, 2080 A.D
.



Russia is planning to further it's reach in the Arctic circle, according to a statement from Vladimir Putin's website. The country has already made a bold appeal to the UN to annex some 380,000 square miles of Arctic seabed due to the existence of oil and gas in the area.



One plan for the region will involve special Arctic cities, or what Dany Bloom has been calling POLAR CITIES since he founded the Polar Cities Research Institute in 2006. GOOGLE. The first Russian polar city is proposed for a frozen Siberian island will be known as "Umka", housing 5,000 residents underneath a huge dome. The polar city will be spared from the harsh weather — -30 degrees Celsius in the winter with strong winds — by the dome, living instead in a sealed environment.



"Researchers could live there permanently rather than for short expeditions only," the developers said. "It is modeled after an imaginary Moon city or a completely isolated space station."



According to The Sunday Express in the UK, the polar city is expected to cost around US$6 billion, and will provide workers with a luxury environment.



“We aim to have laboratories, houses, but also parks, an Aqua complex, hotels and a cathedral. Naturally there will be schools, kindergartens, recreation zones, a hospital and sport facilities," one architect told the British paper.



So, Russians, how about it — a domed polar city in the Arctic circle?

http://i.nona.net/locmap_UMKA_20.1367222X44.5580556X20.4727222X44.7980556.png


Read more:
http://www.businessinsider.com/umka-russia-arctic-2011-10#ixzz1bnUmTIQ4

COULD THIS BE START OF REAL COLD WAR?








The US, Canada, Norway and Russia have all beefed up their naval presence in Arctic waters

October 23,2080 AD
By Will Stewart


RUSSIA is to build an ultra-modern polar city on a frozen island inside the Arctic Circle in the Kremlin’s latest bid to back its claims to vast oil and gas ­reserves under the polar ice cap.





Named Umka after a popular Soviet-era cartoon polar bear cub, the polar city’s 5,000 residents will live under a vast dome to protect them from winter ­temperatures of well below -30C.



Architect Valery Rzhevskiy, who has shown the designs to Kremlin strongman Vladimir Putin, said: “This city will be of strategic importance as ­Russia’s northern outpost.”



Sources say it will house soldiers, border guards and secret service officers, as well as scientists and explorers, as Moscow gets serious about its claims to Arctic mineral riches.



All will enjoy a luxury lifestyle in the cocooned city, which will have its own specially regulated climate as well as a ­variety of other attractive features.



Mr Rzhevskiy added: “We aim to have laboratories, houses, but also parks, an Aqua complex, hotels and a cathedral. Naturally there will be schools, kindergartens, recreation zones, a hospital and sport facilities.



“We want people who will be living and working here not to realise they are in some closed space with an ­aggressive Arctic climate outside.”



Nicknamed “wonder city”, it will be built at a cost of up to £4billion on the remote ­island of Kotelny, in the Novosibirsk archipelago, 1,000 miles from the North Pole.



Strong winds make it one of the most inhospitable places on the planet. Even in July the temperature barely climbs above freezing.



The Umka designs are based on the International Space Station, but it is vast by comparison, just short of a mile long and 800 yards wide.



“So far it is the only project in the world with an artificial climate and ­integral life support, just like on the space station,” Mr Rzhevskiy said.





SEARCH WORLD NEWS for:



“Not only is it a new word in architecture but in human living too. We have used aero and space technologies while creating it.”



Electricity will be supplied by a floating nuclear power station. It will be totally self-sufficient with fish and poultry farms, greenhouses, a wheat processing factory and bakeries.



“There will not be any rubbish at all, as the city will have two factories converting it into all kinds of ashes.”



It will house workers for mines and oil platforms which should pay the costs of the development, it is claimed.



“This project is designed to work on any surface, even on the Moon if needed,” added Mr Rzhevskiy.



Although it has no fixed timetable for opening, the ice city plans come as all countries with territory touching ­Arctic waters are gearing up to submit competing demands to the United Nations for underwater mineral exploitation rights. Western countries were stung when, in 2007, Russian polar ­explorer Artur Chilingarov planted his country’s flag in the Arctic sea bed.



“We must prove the North Pole is an extension of the Russian land mass,” he said at the time.



A Canadian think-tank this year voiced fears of a risk of conflict over the area, saying “an arms race may be ­beginning”.



The US, Canada, Norway and Russia have all beefed up their naval presence in Arctic waters amid warnings of a new Cold War that really could turn out to be cold, ­except perhaps at Umka.

Polar City Dreaming (iamges of our future)

These photos and pics dovetail nicely with our " polar cities" ideas, which come directly from Dr James Lovelock in the UK, We almost called them Lovelock Cities in honor of the great man, but he asked us not to, so polar cities they are for now....google the term and see what my artist has come up with..... polar cities are for survivors of climate chaos in the coming centuries, around 2100 to 2500 AD, if there is an A.D. then, sigh, and these photos above are perfect for polar city dwellers will need to survive. I envision 144 polar cities all over the northlands, and some in New Zealand, Tasmania and Antartctica too. and get ready: a friend is writing a sci fi, .....cli-fi .......novel, now, as we speak, ttiled "Polar City Life" and it's a fictional exploration of life in these polar cities.....circa the distant future. Much of the action will take place, if you use your imagination, is residential buildings like this. SIGH.

http://pcillu101.blogspot.com/

Open Buildings - OpenBuildings is a community-driven encyclopedia of buildings from around the world. It is a database of historic, contemporary, and conceptual architecture that exists as a website



Close Sub-Zero Structures: Designing for Extreme Polar City Locations and Climate Chaos

http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/10/sub-zero-structures-designing-for-extreme-locations-and-climates/246924/

From the Arctic Drifter to the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station, these buildings were made to provide comfort in the harshest of conditions. They will also be part of life during the POLAR CITY era, from 2100 to 3500 AD, when climate chaos threatens humankind with extinction. These lifeboats will save the day!


Designed to endure the extreme weather of the polar city era, these structures -- almost alien in appearance -- are like nothing we have seen before. Their unique aesthetic, however, is nothing more, and nothing less, than an honest response to the specific locations and climates in which they've been constructed. Their shells, as you can see, are completely stripped of the unnecessary or decorative, adornments that might be unfit for the harsh conditions of polar city life. Recent climate changes have presented extreme design with an even greater impetus to address adaptability and mobility, and it is a fact worth noting that these fascinating buildings have gradually grown more and more capable of providing their inhabitants with comfort and protection from the elements.

filed under ''secret manuscript''

Fragments of a Story Interrupted - FICTION, repeat FICTION!

REPORT:



A Fragment of a Short Story Interrupted: Year 2516 A.D.

(c) 2008 Leinad Moolb


It has been a long ten years here in Fairbanks and I am glad I made it here in time. I have a lot to be thankful for, despite the dire straits dear humanity seems to have found itself in.



How did it come to this? We are still trying to connect the dots, to understand...





I heard that many people did not make to any of the existing polar cities on Earth, and that millions, perhaps billions perished. Oh dear God, dear God, the terror!



From what I understand the Universal GlobalGovernment now administers 50 polar cities in the north, and there isword that there are a few in the extreme south, too, but we lostcontact long ago. Each SPR, as we call them, for "sustainablepopulation retreat", has about 10,000 residents, young and old,butmostly young and middle aged, as we must allow the old people to dienatural deaths without medical assistance to prolong their lives. Wecannot afford to use the precious warehouses of food that we have tofeed the old and the sick. It is best to let them die, but we takepains to make their passing as painless as possible. Yes, it'shorrible, but we must survive. This is the only way that we know now.



We have locally grown food here and medical services, schools for the children, a library of sorts, a picture and photo center, and lots of boredom. I mean, how many ways can you spell b o r e d o m? Backwards, moderob, forwards, a few amusing anagrams, there are just seven letters you know. This is a bit what life is like here . There just isn't very much to do. Our main mission is to survive, breed, prepare for the eventual return down south. But nobody has any idea when that will be, if ever.



Still, believe me, I'm not complaining. I'm glad to be alive, I am sure we all are, to have survived the great cull. Some wags are calling The Great Cull with capital letters for each word, as if it was some pre-ordained cosmic event. I don't know, I don't know. Of course, it wasn't. It was just fate -- "fate working overtime", as my father used to tell me.



Dad's gone now. Mom, too, We don't live a long time here, and anyone who makes it to 50 is considered elderly. We just can't afford to keep everyone alive. Things are different now. We have had to learn to play by different rules, different mores.

So many things have happened here in the last 10 years that I hardly know where to begin. First of all, I got married, to a beautiful Inuit girl, Iris Waputik, of the few surviving Inuits, as far as anyone can tell, Iris included. And Iris and I now have three children, our own little brood -- Jace, Rennard and Kobo. Our gifts to the future. If there is a future. You know, if there's one thing that we've learned in the last ten years it's that there is a future, there must be a future, we must live for that future, and yet, in my introspective moments, in my private time, I often wonder if there really will be a future very far on down the road. It's really not easy being here.



But it's true, as our teachers told us and still tell us, we must believe in the future, against all the odds, because -- because without a future, nothing makes much sense anymore. We've lost so much. An entire global civilization crumbled. An entire world went mad. It's not something I want to dwell on in this report, so I won't. But I just want whoever is reading this report, where ever, when ever, I just want you to know that those of us who are called survivors now, we are grateful. We are grateful to be alive, to be carriers of the next generation, of being the caretakers of humanity.



I guess there are about 200,000 of us, maybe 500,000, scattered across these polar cities. There's no real census and communication with most of the other polar cities is chaotic at times. But those of us who made it this far, yes, we are indeed grateful. I think you could call it a community feeling. In fact, gratitude and acts of gratitude have become a large part of our lives here.

But I can't even begin to tell you the truth. It's not a pretty picture. The old world we hear about in stories seems to be a thing of a past we cannot comprehend.



DIARY NOTES:

Sometimes at night, I find myself talking to myself, while my wife and the child are asleep in the room. What do I say? Here:






How did it come to this?


I honestly don't know.


Was it the CO2, the coal, what?


I have no idea.


Maybe it was peak oil.


So many things went wrong.


Some many people were in denial.


They didn't know what hit them.


They weren't ready.


Nobody helped them to get ready.


There was no way to know.


I'm still not sure what hit us.


Who knew? Who knows?


I'm banking on hope. I remain hopeful.


For what? It's an impossible future now.


I think we can undo what we've done.


How?


I'm still thinking about it.


Are you?


Yes, I am.


Keep thinking.


I am.


I will.


Are you an optimist or a pessimist?


Hope is that things with wings.


Emily Dickinson.


Who was that?


A poet.


When? Where?


Long ago.


In another place.


Before polar cities?


Before this, yes.