Lifecoach5000What do you feel like life will be like on earth in 100 years?
Ivyy@LWThe way the world is going, it will easily be Cyberpunk.
SaigonauticonI live in Asia. It already is like that here.
No room to live, and no room to die. Hell is a kettle with a concrete sky.
Damn that is a bleak sentence, but poetically put.
SteinsprutSome arid wasteland after societal collapse caused by climate changes
It’s supposed to be 108° F a few days soon in my area 🔥
Don't forget irradiated by the climate wars
entropicdriftNot to mention the areas that would have been OK after climate change are devastated by mass migration of tens of millions more people than they could've sustainably supported
CritonI'll be long gone and I have no kids by choice. Hopefully the human race will be extinct and the planet can recover.
Can I side step and ask how you feel about 20 years then?
I just want to take care of my little corner of the world. Take care of me and mine, have enjoyable experiences, make memories and try to avoid being evil.
I can't do much about the big stuff (other than vote). It's going to get worse before it gets better (if it ever gets better) but no point worrying.
I like your attitude and feel quite the same. I hope you have a prosperous life!
I like your attitude
What they wrote:
Hopefully the human race will be extinct
Yeah, right. Likable attitude.
Fair enough lol. I like his 20 year attitude specifically on face surface.
Big same. I've spent the last 30 years arguing (and voting) for sustainable policies and environmental regulations, but what little progress has been made is woefully insufficient. I did my best, but obviously humanity doesn't actually want to survive.
Giant ugly concrete buildings with tubes connecting them because it's too hot to go outside. Children haven't ever seen the sky except for in photographs. There are vents everywhere to keep the buildings cool, but it's still hot. The majority of social interaction will happen over the internet because everyone is isolated into their own "apartments". Thankfully, due to the mass pushback against billionaires hoarding wealth, everything will be cheaper. Everything gets delivered by AI robots/drones to families through amazon or some other delivery conglomerate, there is no in-person shopping. This includes things like groceries.
I really hope it doesn't end up like this, but based on how things are going, that's my unfortunate expectations for the future.
Well in that scenario, I think we surely would invent suits to let people at least go outside and perform tasks. Still bleak af tho and not too far fetched maybe
EntropywinsBring on the stillsuits, Fremen and sandworms!!!
Sir_KevinI'm not sure there will be life on earth in 100 years.
That’s completely unrealistic.
True, the cockroaches or at least some bacteria will likely survive no matter what we do with the planet.
ZcaTLet me ask my friend give me a moment
Hot. Lots of forest fires. Sea level rising. Floods. Water shortages. Mass migration, mass starvation, mass casualty events.
So, like today.
Can't really say I disagree.
We can read about all the observations, predictions and all in here:
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf
I‘m just hopeless that the "policymakers" are honestly doing much to avert it.
I feel you. I have an MS in Environmental Policy and it is hard to stay positive. I watch this video to remind me that strides are being made in the right direction.
We WILL Fix Climate Change!
EuroNutellaManI think OP asked for 100 tears into the future, not today.
They did, but writing "the same as now, but worse", would‘ve been a bit boring.
Yes, many South Pacific nations will be gone by then due to sea level rising.
An aging population that decided to have no kids so they have no family to help look after them and the countries struggle to provide proper care.
smokinjoeThis is one that'll come much sooner than 100 years from now
Hell, it's taking place now to an extent given how little social security actually provides coupled with the number of people who's had their pensions absolutely gutted.
Really tragic end for so many of the most vulnerable people.
Just look at the elderly crime rates in Japan and South Korea. No family to take care of them, so they commit crimes to get the state to house and feed them.
Everything's dried out, devastating storms are ravaging earth, few people have survived and fight each other for the rare food. Wars have scarred the landscape. The largest animals that survived are the size of cats or rats.
There is a great ~20 year old song where I'm from called Plus Rien. (Translates to Nothing Left)
Maybe not in the next hundred years, but the way things are going.. this song proves more accurate every time I listen to it.
Plus rien Les cowboys fringants French and English subtitles
tikitakiNo real way to know. If we assume technology keeps advancing at the exponential rate, we'll all be in the metaverse or bionic cyborgs or something. 100 years ago we had just finished WW1 where airplanes and tanks were a new technology. We went from telegraphs to near- instantaneous communications across the planet. We went from the old Fords to having self-driving cars. The internet was created and then eventually popularized and now we all have constant access to the internet in our pockets no matter where we go.
There are some things we can know for certain and others we can guesstimate. For example carbon emissions will have a noticeable impact in 100 years. The temperatures will be higher, there would have been some amount of sea level. Probably not enough to drown Miami but enough to cause serious problems for people all across the world. Our agricultural systems will be put under serious pressure as temperatures change and lower productivity in certain areas (and increase it in others).
I think the future will be good for countries like Canada / Sweden / Russia because global warming will more or less only help them. A lot of land will become better for agriculture / more habitable. Of course they will probably have to deal with some sort of refugee crisis from the global south.
That's of course assuming human society doesn't totally collapse / change because of nuclear war / some sort of terminator AI.
I think the future will be good for countries like Canada / Sweden / Russia because global warming will more or less only help them. A lot of land will become better for agriculture / more habitable. Of course they will probably have to deal with some sort of refugee crisis from the global south.
I don’t know much about this but I don’t think that this is how global warming works ?
I think this misunderstanding is why the phrase “climate change” is preferred because “global warming” makes it sound like everywhere will be a few degrees warmer which is not really the case.
My limited understanding is that the average global temperature may be warmer, but that really just means the ocean surface will be warmer, which creates more severe weather patterns.
The big problems with climate change seem to be quite nuanced, in a nutshell more severe and less predictable weather patterns. For example here in Western Australia maybe 20% of the state is arable land with predictable rainfall. Suppose next year there’s 50% less rainfall in that 20% of the state (it just rains somewhere else) - that’s a catastrophic problem. 50% of the productivity, 50% of the water flowing into dams for industrial and household use. Suppose the following year there’s 50% more rainfall than usual, falling on arable land where it hasn’t rained for a few years - it washes the dry topsoil away again destroying productivity.
There was an episode about water scarcity on doomsday watch podcast - fascinating & terrifying. There’s a phrase that stuck with me - if climate change is a shark then water scarcity is the teeth.
I think that it will be more or less the same, but with more extreme weather and increased military conflict over resources. People will have their devices, corporations will have people working, bad governments will continue to strip wealth away from their citizens. Somehow, I think Norway will be fine, though I am not sure why.
Fish and Potatoes my brother, fish and potatoes...
Man, I’m holding hope for mole people.
MiddleWeighI think we'll have way less people after we drive ourselves into ground with our bad, greedy, I me mine nature.
Think a population akin to north America, pre discovery.(proportionately)
Tbh, they had it pretty well spot on and it got fucked up.
They fought wars etc, but the technology was limited. Their connection to the earth was just that, connected. No middle man. It's the way. And we are going back, slowly but surely. All things settle.
I think the very nature of our minds complicates our own existence. The less we have the better. We are animals. We're smart, but not that smart. We're actually kind of fkn horrible dumb incompetent creatures lol.
Too smart for our own good is an apt phrase.
A full SolarPunk utopia ! The climate change is there by we are adapting to it. People are now living in community that still have a relatively advanced level of technology but they are focused on being substainable. However for most of the daily life the technology used is mostly low tech.
The concept of nature died with the ancient world. Because now everything is nature, the conceptual separation between nature and civilisation collapsed. Now cities, communities and fields or forest are interlaced, rather than exploiting their environnement societies are nurturing it. The food is local, there is a few electric trucks transportation is mostly done by bike and cargo bike. Everything is repairable, most of the energy is produced locally with renewables energy.
Overall we might have lost some material comfort but gained on the quality of life.
I know it’s an utopia, I can’t be sure that it’s gonna happen but the one thing I can be sure it’s that if we don’t try it’s never gonna happen. I believe that or current thermo-industrial civilization started to collapse but I believe that we can still have some very happy lives after that.