Sentences with phrase «polar cities»

Regarding the concept of polar cities and the artwork, my thought is that humans are very visual.

I used it on my blog about polar cities and climate retreats for year 2500 or so.

Perhaps we will see polar cities there in the future.

Just to note, the first print newspaper story about polar cities as a concept appeared on May 31 in a newspaper in Taiwan.

Related but on a side note, NPR recently did a big story on the new literary term of CLI FI, for climate fiction, which I coined in 2007 during my work with polar cities, which still goes on.

One possibility is our own generation, now, is to build a model polar city with funding from someone like Sir Richard Branson or the Google people and letting volunteer «residents» test it out during summer months in a place such as Norway or Iceland or Alaska, mostly as an educational tool and public awareness vehicle.

More bad news: Guess how many Lovelock Retreats (aka polar cities) will be built in Greenland by 2500?

I do hope that at some point, this blog and maybe even the print pages of the NY Times can take note, pro or con, or balanced opinion from experts in the field, both pro and con, of my concept of polar cities for the future.

My polar cities concept must go forward, if only to pose the question: what if?

Play out that scenario, google the term «polar cities», even wikipedia it and tell me if u think it might ever come to that?

Using the term «polar survival pod» rather than «polar city» would be more accurate and help to emphasize the «worst case scenario» aspects of this thought experiment.

By the way, while Dr Lovelock says «at the end of the century, meaning 2100 AD, and in recent interviews in the Guardian and Daily Mail in the UK has mentioned the dates of 2020 and 2040 as when this will occur, my own (more naive) thinking dates these polar cities as being inhabited around the year 2500 AD.

As a far - flung member of the global climate change blogging community, focusing specifically on the possible need for sustainable «polar cities» in the far distant future to house potential survivors of catastrophic global warming events, in say the year 2500 or so (okay, so I am being generous; I don't want to be accussed of fear - mongering in the present).

«The concept of «polar cities» betrays a lack of understanding of the basis on which urban centres can develop.

Some observers have compared these polar city illustrations to Habitrail tubes for hamsters and gerbils, and one wit titled his blog post «Shall the future be lived in Gerbil Cities?»

Bloom's design needs to include pretty strong military defences, if the polar cities are to survive.

In some ways, much of the climate discussion still takes place in an unrealistic and «anesthetized» way, somewhat like the polar city artwork.

Thank you for posting this nice introduction to the polar cities thought experiment.

Danny Bloom, a freelance writer, translator and editor living in Taiwan, is on a one - man campaign to get people to seriously consider a worst - case prediction of the British chemist and inventor James Lovelock: life in «polar cities» arrayed around the shores of an ice - free Arctic Ocean in a greenhouse - warmed world.

A year ago, nobody had even heard of polar cities, and those who had, tried to laugh me off the face of the Earth.

If one day your polar city serve for suffering disaster human, you will be appreciated by vulnerable person and not let them exitinct, of course you will be laugh at heaven.

I hope the Times one day can write about polar cities, pro and con, citing experts reactions both positive and negative.

Andrew, I feel the same way about my [minor, invisible, still unpublicized] «polar cities» project.

Just a quick note, and promise not to post on this subject for a while — polar cities — but here is some artwork we did up to show people what these sustainable polar retreats (SPRs) «might» look like circa year 2500 AD.

They might even be called «polar cities».

Rather» push a golf ball» or a tennis ball, I am in my own small way pushing the idea of» polar cities» to house future survivors of global warming in year 2500 or so (google «polar cities» to see more info) out of a sense of obligation and care for the future.

For people following my obessession with this concept of polar cities, I commissioned a computer graphic artist in Taiwan to make some illustrations of what polar cities, to house possible survivors of global warming's more catastrphic events in the far far distant future, say year 2500, might look like.

Still, I remain an optimist and plan to devote the rest of my life to pushing the concept of polar cities, against all odds.