If another Ice Age struck, Britain would have to be abandoned and everyone would lose their property. Who then would 'own' Britain for the next few thousand years, and what would happen when the Glaciers melted. Any comments or answers ?.
2007-01-14 09:20:55 · 4 answers · asked by ALAN L 1 in Environment
Good question! Real toughie to answer...
Legally speaking, I'd guess the very same people who own it now or just as the ice took over. And that does not mean the citizens (or their descendants left property in wills). It's more likely to be banks whose frozen records would show that Mr. X and Ms. Y had reneged on their mortgage payments in the 2nd month after the coming of ice... from which time the bank, under frozen state law, was deemed the legal owner. And if the bank's head office was overseas in a non-frozen country and had, from there, fulfilled it's legal efforts to contact you about your lapsed payments, and you hadn't responded... well, you'd have no legal recourse...
And if you happened to have cleared your mortgage before the ice and were legally the complete owner... then perhaps your local council or Government would be legal owner because you'd not paid your rates for so long?!
Practically speaking, in a frozen world like that, it would be the first back who would claim ownership and establish new laws. And if they were able to overpower the other folk coming back who insisted that the old law said the land was theirs... well...
... either way, it could be real, real messy.
So perhaps we ought to focus on doing what we can to prevent another ice-age?! Because, never mind the legal and practical mess upon returning, what about the mess as we leave?!
If I were fleeing a country that was icing up, my main concern wouldn't be who'd own the property whenever the ice vanished... but rather "will the French and Dutch let me in - and if we've all to move further on, what will the Austrians, Spanish or Italians say?!"
Wouldn't it be handier not to have another Ice Age if at all possible?
2007-01-14 11:28:35 · answer #1 · answered by Seán Water 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a good question. The way we have bickered and warred through our past history leads me to believe that "real estate" will change hands for eternity. Man is often selfish and greedy. I don't believe we can break that habit. Who knows, perhaps one day Britain will "own" the territory known as the United States. I think we need to start thinking more as a global team instead of separate countries. I would like to help all of the citizens/refugees that will lose their current homes due to natural disasters. I think we need to share our problems, distribute the populations over the habitable lands and work as a team to provide a good life for everyone that is willing to make an effort and work together. However, I am aware that most people don't feel this way and my ideas are closer to a fairy tale than reality.
2007-01-14 17:53:14 · answer #2 · answered by anybody 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to a little publicised theory, there should have been the start of an ice age 500 years ago.
Industrial development has delayed it's commencement...
2007-01-14 17:36:31 · answer #3 · answered by Nightworks 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is when not if,Every thing that goes round comes round.It would all start again.
2007-01-14 17:26:33 · answer #4 · answered by will 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋