A couple of weeks ago I shared a project by Andrew David Thaler called Drown Your Town that used Google Earth to show what cities around the world would look like under water. You could (and still can!) submit your favorite city and desired sea level rise and see how close to Waterworld you can get. And last week I shared a real life Drown Your Town in Austin, Texas after a massive rainstorm that flooded many parts of the city.
But what if all the ice on our planet melted? Coastal cities would be flooded. Millions upon millions of people would be displaced. We would expect inland seas and new passageways where there were none. And we would need new maps.
As these new maps from National Geographic show, our planet would look a little different:
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