Post by kaliszewski on Aug 26, 2007 1:55:17 GMT -5
Given the last scene in the film-- but given, too, that I'm not exactly an expert on Australia's climate-- might it not already be too late to save the Earth's biosphere? I find myself wondering how many plant and animal species have been lost at this point, as well as what percentage of the world's population has already starved or frozen to death. (That's why I set my "training" fics like "Sleepers" and "Teamwork" in and around Duluth, Minnesota: if the world's temperature were to plummet, I'd want to be in an area that's accustomed to cold-- an area with insulated housing, storm doors, double windows, central heating, and folks who know not only the life-saving magic of layered clothing but how not to drive like utter idiots on snow and ice.)
So... just thoughts. Tropical areas and milder temperate zones damaged or destroyed...? Widespread starvation, especially in China and India...? (What would happen even with the loss of a single rice crop...?) The population at large learning to subsist on lichen and codfish...?
Are the Icarus II and her crew already too late? Now, that would be an alternate-ending zinger, especially if any of them made it back....
So... just thoughts. Tropical areas and milder temperate zones damaged or destroyed...? Widespread starvation, especially in China and India...? (What would happen even with the loss of a single rice crop...?) The population at large learning to subsist on lichen and codfish...?
Are the Icarus II and her crew already too late? Now, that would be an alternate-ending zinger, especially if any of them made it back....
