week 8

I am visiting the coastal city of Miami. Over the last 5,000 years so much has changed that the city is completely unrecognizable. What were once buses and cars are now submarines. The whole state of Florida is no longer visited by plane, rich millionaires frequently buzz around in beautiful self-driving underwater rockets making private planes look cheap. Global warming has created a whole new world, what was taken for granted is now gone. All produce and protein come from outside states, as it is too expensive and not feasible to grow these products underwater. The biggest issue I have encountered is all human emissions within the state are dumped into the ocean and no longer being pumped into the atmosphere. This has caused the fish population surrounding Miami’s coast to dwindle down to fewer than thirty species as human life calls their homes their own. The temperature in the water has risen ten degrees due to the emissions from mankind, scientists have counteracted this by introducing massive cooling generators throughout the town, and one could call them refrigerators. The one massive scientific advancement has been the ability to make the water surrounding the city drinkable by only introducing a harmless chemical that filters out the salt. This has created a massive initiative to give up plastic water bottles, stores no longer carry them. In the future, other cities on what is now called the mainland will have to adopt these same techniques as the water is rising a few inches a year. Miami is the most expensive city to live in in the entire USA, but people are attracted to the ability to seamlessly live with oceanic wildlife.