Science Fiction for December 2011
by Henry Leon Lazarus
The problem with Global warming as a disaster is that
it lacks excitement. Yeah, a century from now we might have to deal with
rising ocean levels and move some of our cities away from coastal areas.
Science Fiction readers know true disasters; meteors that wipe out most
of life on earth; a plague with a ninety per cent kill rate like the Black
Death of the middle ages; solar flares that burn off sections of the Earth’s
crust, or maybe a return Ice Age like the one twelve thousand years ago
that covered what has become many of our major cities.