The construction of the RMS Titanic represented the culmination of the industrial revolution. It was the largest man-made moving object at the time. To this day it had the largest reciprocating engines ever built.

The industrial revolution also begot air pollution eventually resulting in global warming. Today this is causing the melting of the ice caps and producing glaciers.

So there is a cruel irony in the fate of the RMS Titanic which struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912. Was this a prophetic warning that the earth could suffer the same fate?