Comments by "G Money" (@AliceinWonderlandzz) on "Where in the World: Fernandez and Cotton" video.

  1. Your 'endless backpacking summer' has helped inspire me to start a YouTube channel. I'm going to call it 'Six Feet Under Water'. The Thwaites 'Doomsday' glacier is probably only two to three years from being lifted off the moraine lip it currently rests on. When it does, a sheet of ice, roughly the size of England will roll into the ocean like a giant ship being rolled out of dry dock. When that happens sea level will rise 6' within a couple of years. That creates a number of existential crises. 1. 1.5 billion people that live on or around the ocean shoreline will have to adjust - the rich will move their million dollar mansions to the new shoreline kicking the poor out of their ghettos. The poor will have to migrate, who knows where, causing all kinds of discomfort. The rich river deltas where most of that cotton is grown, along with everything else, will become salted and unfarmable. And we'll adapt. The tragic loss will be that my grandchildren, and yours, and their generations after, will lose 90% of the natural sand beaches in the world. Once the water has risen, the ocean will wash up on rock, trees, or mud, but unless we build it - no more beaches. I'm inspired, with my wife (a photographer), to record and memorialize what our best beaches are like before they are gone. Not just the natural beauty, but the experience of living and playing in the great spaces that have grown up around the beach life. Thanks for doing these insightful videos. Cotton was not on my radar as an end of times commodity but you are right it could well be. Oddly, South Africa and Zimbabwe, the land of my birth, is also a strong cotton producer. My father's partner had a textile mill and made a fortune supplying bolts of cloth to Europe and well as manufacturing clothing. Today Zimbabwe buys bales of used clothing, shipped and sold by the Salvation Army and Goodwill, to be sold on the street. Once again reminding us, the core threat to humanity is humanity.
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