Tall People Won’t Have to Endure Reclining Airline Seats in the Future | Opinion | WIRED
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By 2100, New York was enduring an excruciating 70 days a year above 100 degrees (as predicted), so we abandoned it. The other coastal hells, too. Rising sea levels coupled with the inherent seismic instability of living near the boundaries of tectonic plates drove our people inland, leaving the coastlines and engineered seawalls an unpredictable frontier upon which the brave make a living and the destitute subsist, far away from the safety of the megacities. I’ve heard rumors that some six-footers live out there, gulping down great quantities of diseased fish to support the nutritional demands of growing to such an incredible height. They wouldn’t last long in the close confines that house so much of the world’s population.
