I have not yet seen Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”, but I just caught a commercial for it that, like most previews, gave away one of the major plot points of the movie (so now I don’t have to see it!). The commercial shows the results of the melting of the polar ice caps - water creeping in on all shores, flooding coastal ranges throughout the world and causing widespread devastation:

“Because of what’s happening,” Gore says, “the maps of the world will have to be redrawn.”

I’m not sure we’ve really explored the full ramifications of this yet. Now is the prime time for our youth to wake up and realize what this means for their future. Specifically: the cartographic industry is going to BOOM.

Hell, mapmakers will be lucky if they can keep up with the demand for newly redrawn boundary lines. You know what that means - trained cartographers will be high in demand.

What’s that? Your high-falutin’ ivy-league college doesn’t offer a course in cartography, despite the fact that it offers a course titled “CLA112: Homo-Erotic Love Poems of the Late Second Century BCE in the Original Sanskrit”?  Don’t sweat it - I’m sure Devry offers a correspondence course. While you’re at it, you can get your certification in gun repair.

I’ve already sunk my life savings into stocks of National Geographic. Hello, 2036 Map Boom!