The last man will call Barrow his home.

Just real quick. For no other reason than that it occurred to me.

Alaska (Aleut Alaxsxaq) was the first place inhabited by humans in North America. (My mentor in college, the eminent geneticist and anthropologist Dr. Stephen Zegura did work on the genetics and dental morphology of the first Americans, the tribes that crossed the Bering ice bridge to Alaska from Russia.) And Alaska, if global worming becomes catastrophic, will be the last place inhabited by humans in North America. The inland highlands of the North Slope in the last days of human dominion will be a pretty pleasant climate. Too bad that just means that we're all fucked. If it gets that bad, then the last humans on the North American continent will live very much as the first ones did. But with warmer oceans.