Human action, in general, has increased the risk of flooding since the 1980s in many regions of the world, such as Great Britain, which recently suffered a serious episode, or Spain, whose Mediterranean coast is highly exposed to these phenomena.
Jules Verne in his famous work already raised the possibility that humans could go around the world in just 80 days. Today, modern technologies allow the feat to be completed in just over a day. But how long could a drop of water in the ocean do it?
By 2050, in just 30 years, there will be around 7,594 million people who will inhabit the blue planet, misnamed Earth, because 70% of its surface is covered with water.
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