Conclusion

Abstract

In his 5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster (1986), Richard Noone predicted that during the inaugural spring of the third millennium, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn would align for the first time in six thousand years and thus abruptly increase the Earth’s temperature. The polar ice caps would melt. The earth would drown. Tragically, the primal soup, inhuman, would again slosh.¹

So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn sun.

—J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World (1962)