5 Places to See Before Global Warming Destroys Them
It's no secret that climate change impacts more than just the weather and that we can expect some pretty significant environmental changes in the near future. As in, those melting glaciers aren't coming back, not ever. CNN put out a list of the five places you should mark "Must See ASAP" on your bucket list, or else risk missing them entirely.
1. The Great Barrier Reef -- the water off the coast of Australia is getting warmer, and the once vividly colored reefs that teemed with life are dying off, leaving ghostly bleached white skeletons.
2. New Orleans -- chances are that last flood won't be the last one. Go now, before the levees wash away with everything else.
3. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado -- cold snaps aren't what they used to be, which means the pine beetles aren't getting killed off in the winter. To celebrate, they're eating up a storm, turning the formerly evergreen forest into a burnt orange tree cemetery.
4. Alpine Glaciers in Switzerland -- melting. Gone soon. As in, between 2030 and 2050.
5. Amazon Rain Forest -- trees get cut down, which leads to such high, dry temperatures that they can't grow back.
Of course, the big problem with traveling to see any of these places is that you're creating more carbon emissions, leading to more climate change, and accelerating the destruction of these places. So maybe we should all stay home and just flip through some back issues of National Geographic.
See? Finally we have a reason why we've all been keeping those darned magazines in storage for the past 20 years!
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