Year 3000: Harmless pop song, or terrifying vision of the future?

I've had this idea rattling around in my head for a couple of weeks now, but since the extremely exciting news that my teenage dreams are all coming true, and Busted are really, officially, absolutely reforming and touring - with Charlie fully involved!!!! - I thought today was the perfect time to release it out into the world, as I listen to a Busted playlist, obsessively check Twitter for more news, and occasionally sob with joy. 

Now, in October, I wrote a blog post about how rising sea levels could see a few places we love submerged in water in the next 100 years, and there was a throwaway joke in there about Busted's Year 3000 being an accurate vision of the future.

This got me to thinking: if sea levels do keep rising the planet will probably be completely underwater by the year 3000. Could we, as humans, realistically survive? Could we create little underwater communities? Is the song just a song? Or is actually warning us about the future?

I made this on my lunch break without access to Photoshop I'm really truly sorry for how terrible it is. 

Three places I want to visit before they're underwater

Hull could be completely submerged in water in the next hundred years or so.

Just let that sink in (pun intended) for a moment.

Hull.

Hull, the 2017 City of Culture, a pinnacle of civilization as we know it, will one day - relatively soon - be under water.

Hull, a place immortalised in poetry by Philip Larkin; somewhere that's been city since the late 12th century could cease to exist by 2115.

Apart from the frankly terrifying prospect that Busted's Year 3000 is not merely a lighthearted pop song, but in fact an accurate vision of the future, it's odd to think that my great-grandchildren could feasibly not know that Hull was ever a real place.

Hull is the Atlantis of our time.

Hull.

I've never actually been to Hull, but now it's only got a limited amount of time left as a viable tourist attraction, I feel like I should probably go see the Humber Bridge or something.

Which got me thinking...