Timothy Pachirat, a comparative political science professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, shares a similar, low drum view of humanity. Hansen told the New York Times that the world would likely be under ocean water within decades, not centuries. “Imagine that,” Bry added in his missive, “New York, Tokyo, Mumbai, Shanghai, Bangkok, Amsterdam, Miami would go first. And since man-made global warming is a real concern for future generations, “what kind of world would my great-great-grandchildren inhabit?” he wrote. Bry rhetorically asked himself if it is immoral to bring a kid into a world ravaged by pot-marked roads brought asunder by man’s unwillingness to meet climate change head-on.