More importantly consider how GW evangelicals take an example and blow way out of proportion.
Great minds in the 1880s concluded New York will be destroyed in 100 years.
Great News: Six Million Horses Almost Destroyed New York City
In 1880, the U.S. brought together a group they considered the world’s smartest people to answer one pressing question…
What will New York City look like in 100 years?
New York was in full bloom. It was an unprecedented hub of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Yes, it was an exciting time to be a New Yorker. The world’s first elevated train… underground subway… and with the first skyscraper in the hopper…
The Big Apple was changing how the world thought about — and lived — in cities.
So everyone was curious: What lies ahead for The City That Never Sleeps?
The team of big brains plugged their gourds together and mulled it over…
They talked. They argued. They rubbed their chins and massaged the bulging veins in their foreheads.
Some of them probably scribbled indecipherable squiggles on the chalkboard and pointed at them. They said words in convincing tones.
Some nodded. Some stood up and raised their arms and their eyebrows.
“Eureka!” one of them probably shouted.
And then, in the end, they all nodded in unison.
They all came to a unanimous agreement.
“In 100 years time,” they said (in essence), “probably well before, New York will be…”
Wait for it…
“… completely destroyed!”
Yep. That was their conclusion and they were sticking to it.
How did they come to such a drastic determination? Well, look no further than the population boom.
And… horses.
In the early 1800s, there were about 30,000 people in New York. And by 1880, that number had ballooned to nearly four million.
The city’s population had, on average, doubled in size every decade.
The brainiacs assumed that this trend would continue.
And in assuming this trend to continue, they began to wonder how all of these people would get around.
Horrified, they began to imagine all the horses the city would need.
By 1980, the team concluded, New York would need more than six million horses.
Six million!
And six million horses presents an obvious problem.
The city already had 200,000 horses in 1880.
Each one, they somehow calculated, dumped a quart of urine and 24 pounds of manure every day.
That’s 4.8 million pounds of horse dung and 50,000 gallons of pee already being dumped into the streets… every. single. day.
Needless to say, horse waste was already a problem. The city was already drowning in it.
“The stench was omnipresent,” one writer, Eric Morris, wrote in his urban planning Masters thesis…
“Urban streets were minefields that needed to be navigated with the greatest care,” the thesis reads. “‘Crossing sweepers’ stood on street corners; for a fee they would clear a path through the mire for pedestrians. Wet weather turned the streets into swamps and rivers of muck, but dry weather brought little improvement; the manure turned to dust, which was then whipped up by the wind, choking pedestrians and coating buildings.
“…even when it had been removed from the streets the manure piled up faster than it could be disposed of…early in the century farmers were happy to pay good money for the manure, by the end of the 1800s stable owners had to pay to have it carted off. As a result of this glut…vacant lots in cities across America became piled high with manure; in New York these sometimes rose to forty and even sixty feet.”
Worse, manure is breeding ground for flies. And flies spread disease. Typhoid outbreaks, Morris wrote, “and “infant diarrheal disease can be traced to spikes in fly population.”
Now times that situation by 30.
It slowly dawned on our intrepid researchers that by 1980, New York’s poor sidewalks and streets would gather 144 million pounds of dung… and be awash with 1,500,000 gallons of horse urine.
Great News Six Million Horses Almost Destroyed New York City
The point is they never considered new technology...i.e. automobile!
They use this an example of the sea rising overtaking lands.
"the island of Tuvalu in the South Pacific. Just like like other low lying areas, they are seeing their homes disappear because of the rising oceans. "
Strange but the FACTS are
1) Tuvalu is 15 feet above sea level.
2) since 1993 there has been a 5-millimetre rise in sea levels surrounding Tuvalu per year.
3) 5mm equals 0.197 inches.
4) Divide 180 inches which is 15 feet by .197 inches per year.
5) within 913 years Tuvalu will be under water....that is if the Antarctica melts!
Tuvalu The South Pacific Island sinking in Global Emissions
