Re: Massive ice shelf collapsing off Antarctica

In article <1206569550@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Wayne Throop <throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>: Gene Ward Smith <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>: Maybe a future where Antarctica becomes inhabiable, albeit with funny 
>: lighting conditions?
>
>Drat, there's a YASID of that that I just can't call title/author and/or
>many details to mind.  But it was a post-collapse-of-some-sort future
>(not, I think, primarily climate change), where we follow somebody who
>takes up mining some of the old cities for metals and other materials,
>but eventually is contacted by higher-tech folks who've been using the
>coal resources in antarctica, plus domed cities, yada yada, to be the
>new center of (what remains of) civilization.  Still ice, but much
>milder conditions than nowdays.  Given that I remember much is made
>of coal under the ice, it may have been an energy-shortage collapse,
>part of the SF community reaction to the oil pseudoshortage of the 70s.

Olaf Stapledon had technological civilization on Earth collapsing once
the last coal seam in Antarctica was mined out.

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