Why Should We Care If the Glaciers Are Melting.

It’s Christmas vacation , and again I’m m in Florida. My family took our drive down to South Beach to have lunch at our favorite Cuban restaurant, buy me some clothes at Quicksilver, then hang out at the beach.

Over the years of growing up, I notice the beach getting smaller, as the sea level rose. It seemed so gradual, I hardly noticed. But then the changes started happening quicker. We were warned about the effects of global warming, particularly about how the melting land ice would raise sea levels,

I remember when I was 11 and 12 years old parking on the street, putting money in the meters, as we pulled into the 12th Street parking garage, three miles west of Collins Ave.

The dive shop was crowded with tourists renting wet suits and regulators. I dressed quickly, excited about our tour of the old Lowes hotel. I remember when I went there to fence. If I fenced here nobody would beat or loose against me. Fencing masks did NOT have breathalyzers.

The Lowes lobby was incredible, but there were water spiders in the chandelier. The swimming pool was now part of the biggest swimming area in the world. Their Ballroom was the chamber that held the breathalyzers. The canopies of all the pre-Atlantis era were now attached to the surface and were the easiest way in.

Quicksilver quickly focused on snowboarding ever since the pre-Atlantis era

We should have seen the signs. The glaciers melting. It wasn’t the water-ice that was bad, it was the Land Ice.

I am Lane Lubell, I am 19 years old, and this is what’s named after Atlantis. This is the atlantian era