r/askanything • u/surelynotjimcarey • 4h ago
General Question Anyone else get FOMO around new landscapes forming?
This is kinda hard to explain, but I’ll try.
I’m an avid outdoorsman and listening to Fish and Game biologists describe making reservoirs or creating habitat, it makes me think about the rivers and mountains that took millions of years to form.
I get some sort of existential angst thinking about how, although I’ll see reservoirs get built, in my lifetime I’ll never see a new river or a new canyon.
The earth didn’t always look how it looks today, and in another billion years it’ll be even more different. Relatively speaking, in my human lifespan I’m only going to see a tiny snippet of the earth. From my perspective, our landscapes are permanent but really they aren’t at all.
Just me?
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u/NotAnAIOrAmI 4h ago
Don't miss out, go see the major landscape changes taking place right now! Glaciers retreating, rivers drying up, Arctic ocean winter freeze getting smaller, continent-sized ice shelves collapsing in Antarctica!
The disaster in Nepal a few weeks ago with catastrophic flooding was a consequence of climate change as a piece of the mountain literally fell off. Lots more of that and glacial melt flooding coming, anywhere there are glaciers.
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u/Sagaie 3h ago
Nepal had another flood yesterday on october 11th :( fortunately it was not as devastating but there was very sadly still loss of life. https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/s/Ams6e5Smg2
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u/out_of_context96 4h ago
Totally. I feel similarly about how places may have looked even hundreds of years ago before we modified so much terrainand built large sprawling cities
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u/MD2SC22 4h ago
You have FOMO of places that will happen thousands of years from now?
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u/surelynotjimcarey 1h ago
Kinda yeah
Edit: Maybe not “fear” of missing out but a melancholy feeling when pondering the concept.
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u/Tall_Category_304 4h ago
Someone wise once said: “don’t go chasing waterfalls, stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to”