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If all the polar ice in the world were to melt tomorrow would you be on waterfront property or swimming with the fishes?
That is the question Jeffrey Linn, a speculative cartographer has indirectly answered by creating a map of 麻豆传媒映画showing what the city would look like if sea levels were to rise by 66 meters. On , he explains the sea levels depicted are based on statistics from the International Panel on Climate Change and his maps show the very endpoint of sea rise. While the levels shown in his Waterworld-esque maps are not going to happen within our lifetimes, even a fraction of what the maps show could spell disaster.
鈥淢illions of people are at risk of starvation from droughts and crop failures that will occur soon鈥搇ong before the seas rise to the point shown in these maps,鈥� Linn writes. 鈥淭he dangers the world faces are real and happening now. I create these maps out of a sense of fascination with what the world will be long after I鈥檓 gone, and to share my fascination, along with a dose of cheesy humour.鈥�
That 鈥渃heesy humour鈥� is on full display in the 麻豆传媒映画map which renames many neighbourhoods to be more appropriate for their new coastal settings. The West End becomes the now submerged 鈥淲et End鈥�, the spit of land that remains of Stanley Park becomes 鈥淪tanley Island鈥� and the completely submerged downtown core becomes 鈥淐ondo Reef.鈥�
With a BA in Geography and a Master鈥檚 Degree in Landscape Architecture, 尝颈苍苍鈥檚 work has been featured in the Washington Post and verified by Snopes. Linn creates the maps using publicly sourced data and other mapping techniques created by fellow mapping enthusiasts.
A print of the 麻豆传媒映画Sea Level Rise Map is available .
