Jules Verne’s Prediction on the Future

Jules Verne had predicted the future! You may have read some of his famous novels: “Twenty thousands leagues under the sea” ; “Around the world in eighty days” ; “Journey to the center of the earth” ; “From the earth to the moon” ; etc…

One of the lesser known is “Sans dessus dessous” or in English “The purchase of the North Pole” (aka “Topsy-turvy”)… In this novel, an auction is organised to define the sovereign rights of the Arctic to the North Pole… The region includes Greenland…

The territory gets purchased by an anonymous American buyer who has a devilish plan: he and his mad scientist friends want to change the axis of the earth, so the ice would melt and they could then exploit the coal mines in the region, not mentioning the fortune to be made in real estate… Any resemblance with any current political figure is purely coincidental…