This is apocalyptic. Imagine something 100km from where you live, and that whole span between you and there being under water tomorrow. in a movie, that wouldn’t feel real no matter how good the special effects are, it’s too out there
This entire thing just reminds me of Day After Tomorrow (2004). Although the movie had a lot of bad science, way too many people called the premise and social outcomes of the movie ridiculous. Hell, the South Park criticism of it alone significantly pushed this current batch of climate deniers.
It was as if they hadn't realized the amount that people draw from their work.
It was _pretty explicit_, the turnaround. Or at least it felt that way to me.
I think that thinking people massively underestimate the influence that cartoons have on common people.
It seems like 90% of the people who argue against religion on the internet got everything they know about religion from cartoons like South Park. Or everything they know about Texas from King of the Hill.
There was a newspaper article a few years ago about how some massive percentage of Britons thought The Simpsons was an accurate depiction of Americans, and didn't understand that it was a lampoon.
Every character and trope is a humorous representation of something in America. Are you American? Because I am and i've met someone like every character in the Simpsons in real life.
They did however walk back on the manbearpig.
``` On November 8th, you must vote against me and show the world that you didn’t think the new Star Wars was all that good. When you’re in that voting booth, remember that every vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote that shows the world we agree that The Force Awakens was more like a Happy Days reunion special than a movie. The choice is yours, America. Please make the right one. ```
which felt pretty explicit to me.
> Two days before the day after tomorrow
> Bah gawd... that's today
It makes you understand the importance of Brazil, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Indonesia for things that impact people.
Pakistan is the world's fifth-most-populous country.
The population is young: in 2019 34.8% were thought to be 14 or younger
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_in_Pakistan
Pakistan has one of the world's youngest populations.
The country's population structure is relatively young, with a median age of 19.
Pakistan is also thought to have the world's fourth-largest refugee population, estimated at 1.4 million in mid-2021
Nation of Refugees - now or always? Now due to floods I can understand. But if always, I do not understand. They have been a "stable" country for half a century. When I say "stable", I mean without any land being lost or won since 1971, which puts the last major change at almost 51 years and 51 years should be a long time for any refugees to be assimilate, no?
There was also an internal operation in the last decade to remove the Taliban and such from their strongholds and that caused a lot of innocents to lose their homes.
There were large floods in 2010 and a strong earthquake in 2005 that also destroyed many towns and villages.
And as a historical tidbit, when Mao was in power, a small number of Chinese ran from there and settled in Pakistan.
This is wild. Google says the US is 38, Germany 45, Japan 48 for some random examples (the top search result for me says Pakistan median age is 22, which is still crazy).
I don't understand. Why can't the government self advocate given it's a nation of children and refugees?
That will be insufficient for a 100-year flood (~1000 acres underwater by current mapping), and a 200-year or 500-year flood would put significant fractions of the city underwater.
https://eng2.lacity.org/projects/LARIVER_Glendale_Narrows/do...
Crazy stuff.
The way I ended up explaining it to my kids was that 33M people were affected. San Francisco population is ~800k, so around 40 SFs worth of people are impacted.
That's not to say this isn't shocking or a sign of radical climate change.
How deep is it? I mean, I'm sure there are areas that are a few inches deep and others that are dozens of feet, but generally speaking -- is this more or less than the height of a single story?
Edit: And is it generally of similar depth or does it vary greatly from locale to locale?
The entire state would grind to a halt, much the rest of the country would suffer seriously as well.