It’s a Small World By Hank Silverberg No apologies to the Walt Disney Company. Our world IS getting smaller, in more ways than you think. And the biggest challenge to our survival as a human race may come not from China, Russia, Iran or nuclear weapons, but from things we can’t see or mistakes the whole world made decades ago. This week I am highlighting just a few small things. If you are one of my readers who likes my continued attack on Donald Trump, sorry. Only one of these items can be indirectly blamed on him. A news story about the polar icecaps caught my attention. It seems that Antarctica and Greenland have lost enough ice in the last 16 years to fill Lake Michigan. The source, NASA, is as reputable as you can get. The agency put the details out in an official news release. The big ice melt has raised sea levels around the world by half an inch. Now that’s not going to invade your beach front property just yet, but it is a warning of what could be coming.