Notes From The Anthropocene
As global warming melts the Siberian permafrost, mammoth ivory becomes increasingly fashionable:
Autopia experiences its hottest day on record.
With an estimated 150m corpses under the permafrost, stocks are unlikely to run out soon, and thanks to global warming (every cloud . . .) they are becoming increasingly easy to reach. Meanwhile, a report in the Pachyderm journal offers the ringing endorsement that mammoth ivory could "reduce demand for elephant ivory from Africa. Probably."The old-school energy industry wants to capitalise on the opening of the Northwest Passage by building nuclear-powered icebreakers that could transport cargoes of liquified natural gas through Arctic ice. What could possibly go wrong?
Autopia experiences its hottest day on record.
posted by Paul McAuley at 7:57 am
1 Comments:
At least there's plenty of mammoths left to clone. We might need them if we get an ice age triggered by conveyor shutdown.
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