The same nonsense was being peddled in a “2004” series of UK Guardian editorial suppliments called, 2020. Blackpool in the UK would be full of mosquitoes and palm trees.
From flooded cities to hellish wildfires and deadly droughts, gloomy climate reports constantly describe a world ruined by climate change.
But what would this actually look like?
Environmental specialist Marish Cuenca has partnered with DiscoverCars.com to create artistic depictions of tourist spots in just a quarter of a century from now.
London‘s Big Ben looks straight out of a disaster movie, straddled by a mass of murky floodwater, while the Pyramids of Giza are home to a toxic urban landscape.
Palm trees of Hawaii have been ravaged by fire, while California’s Death Valley is so hot that the roads are melting.
Experts at DiscoverCars.com believe their images could become reality in 2050, unless we take serious climate action and curb our emissions.
‘With global warming continuing to have an impact on the planet, we’re already starting to see the effects of climate change,’ it says in a blog post.
‘From the melting of glaciers in the Arctic to warmer summers than ever before, it’s safe to say that the environment is changing before our very eyes in real-time.
