What If the Poles Melted? #Shorts #WhatIf #Science

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What If the Poles Melted Completely? 🌊  I keep coming back to this one because the number alone breaks your brain. 70 metres. That is how much sea levels rise if every drop of polar ice melts. Not a flood. The ocean deciding it lives somewhere else now, and the somewhere else is where you grew up. Every coastal city disappears beneath the surface. The buildings are still there, still standing. Fish swimming through the streets. Your city exists below the water. Just not for you anymore. A third of the world's farmland gone. Two billion people with no country to go back to. The water settles and it stays there. Permanently. 🌊

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00:00What if every drop of polar ice melted?

00:04Tonight, sea levels rise 70 meters.

00:07Every coastline on Earth is already gone.

00:09Every city built near the ocean.

00:11London, Tokyo, New York, Mumbai beneath the surface.

00:15The landmarks you've known your entire life.

00:17Underwater, in hours, people reach higher ground.

00:21But there are 2 billion of them, and not enough hill.

00:24Cities that were never near the ocean become the new coastline.

00:28The map is wrong now.

00:30Below the water, your city still exists.

00:32Just not for you anymore.

00:34A third of the world's farmland, submerged.

00:37The food supply collapses within a year.

00:40The water settles.

00:42A new shore forms.

00:43What was coast is now deep ocean.

00:462 billion people.

00:47No country to go to, and the water isn't going anywhere.

00:51What do you think?

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