Much like the mutation of a virus, you can't predict these sort of things. There is evidence in the geologic record of pole reversal, and of the crust turning 90 degrees. Anyone who claims to know WHEN it may occur has a hand in trying to make it happen.
It's also suicide. Shifts such as this one have caused mass-extinction events. I don't know how someone could trigger such an event, but if you want to "save the Earth" while destroying humanity, that's how you would do it. If a human had the power to pull this off, there is no guarantee they would survive the event. I don't think we have the technology or horsepower to initiate such an event, so if it happens, it's random, and we were due for it, geologically speaking.
Much like the mutation of a virus, you can't predict these sort of things. There is evidence in the geologic record of pole reversal, and of the crust turning 90 degrees. Anyone who claims to know WHEN it may occur has a hand in trying to make it happen.
The latter is certainly an interesting supposition.
It's also suicide. Shifts such as this one have caused mass-extinction events. I don't know how someone could trigger such an event, but if you want to "save the Earth" while destroying humanity, that's how you would do it. If a human had the power to pull this off, there is no guarantee they would survive the event. I don't think we have the technology or horsepower to initiate such an event, so if it happens, it's random, and we were due for it, geologically speaking.