Well with all thats going on what will the Earth be like in 100 years?
With all the current pollution that is being released in the envirenment will can-o-air be a realality?
Well if you think about it we all pollute each day. We just recently within the last 16 years started doing something about pollution. But is it to late? Have we already put Earth at a no return baises. We are seeing the world become better towards the envirenment. Like now we have more fuel efficent cars. But is it because the gas prices are so high or is it because people actually care?
Its really a series of questions. None of which i think can't be answerd. I won't know what the world will be like in the next 100 years. I wont' be around to see it. But my kids hopefully will be. So we have to do something about it.
We need to all put in our efforts to help save Earth. You might not be effected but your kids most likely will. If not your grandkids. You can't tell me that you won't care about your kids or grandkids.
No i'm not trying to sell the idea of saving the earth on you. I'm just saying its a problem. It could turn out that we have to go through a thosand dollar procces just to clean the water. Like i said we will need to clean our air badly. Most animals will die and that will lead to us dieing. All this because we pollute like crazy.
(All this was just me having to say what i have to say. Its something i'm currently learning about in science class. I recently read an article on it and things like this where said. So i figured i would share it. And i didnt' copy and past the article.)
Man, by then, if we haven't fixed our current problems, I can only imagine (and be creative).
Now imagine this with me ladies and gentlemen:
Pollution hasn't been reduced by much. The air quality is horrible, but it's not caused by CO2 anymore, so we dont' need to worry about the planet turning into a giant oven (yet). The ozone is intact, but still pollution is hurting us. Perhaps the genius scientists has finally said, "Forget it, it's too late to fix it, nearly impossible." Instead they develop this Gene Evolution project to give the human body natural filters, the only problem is that the filter needs to be cleaned via spitting it out. So imagine this in 100 years, the streets flooded with spit. Man... I must be tired... =_=
Well here's the deal... the world works in mysterious ways.
Technology has come a long way in the last 50 years... cars put out a fraction of a fraction of a percent as much pollution as they did even 30 years ago.
Now I'm not saying we shouldn't take advantage of technology to reduce pollution.. in small scale scenarios it makes a BIG difference (just imaging what smog was like in the urban environments 100 years ago)... however I also believe that we are naive by believing we can make a global impact on the environment, especially after a mere century or two. (Short of an all out nuclear war, that is)
Nature can be its own worst enemy... the vast majority of pollution is caused by things we cannot control.. even nature itself. I personally believe that this whole global warming thing is a natural cycle that existed way before we had to technology to pollute... we came out of the ice age way before the internal combustion engine was developed... and no matter what we do.. we WILL have another ice age again.
Its best not to speculate on what the world will look like in a 100 years unless your writing a story that takes place in a 100 years or your talking about plausible outcomes of currant events. 30 years ago people vision of the now was greatly different than how now turned out to be. Its imposable to know.
| The Conspirator wrote: |
| Its best not to speculate on what the world will look like in a 100 years |
Says you. I'll speculate on what ever I think is appropriate. Not what you say I should or shouldn't.
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| 30 years ago people vision of the now was greatly different than how now turned out to be |
Yeah, back then we were going into global freezing and they were saying the same crap they're saying now... we'll be dead in 30 years or something along those lines. 
I think we'll be off oil completely. Living without the threat of thugs and barbarians killing our women and children. Living without liars and doomsdayers trying to use natural issues against mankind.Speculation about the future is a very important aspect of what we do now. If we were to never look at the future to guide our decisions (a feat that is incidentally, impossible) our decisions would never be profitable. If Bill Gates had said "to heck with the future" there would be no Microsoft (and we'd all be working on a much less advanced operating systems because of the significant loss of competition in the market). We extrapolate on current decisions (speculate about the future) to more accurately make those decisions, without the possibilities of the future as a guide, we can not advance.
Well in my opinion, some sort of tech will excel in the next 20 years, it was computers before, the next revolution, I believe will be nano-tech, after that its simply too hard to guess, the computer I am typing this on will be completely obsolete, who knows what will happen to the internet, will war destroy our world, or will we destroy war and live in peace finally? Will a second, brand new, black death kill us all or will cancer be conquered.
It is simply impossible to know, all I know is that it should all be here tomorrow (but how can I be sure?).
I think earth will get back to stone age in 100 years from today.
with the development of new technologies even weapons of mass destruction are being created which can ruin this earth in a sec. And with this conflict going on between countries,in the name of religion, third world war which is for sure a nuclear war is not far away.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts atmospheric CO2 concentrations in about 100 years (the year 2100) of 540 ppm to 970 ppm, depending upon the scenario, along with an average temperature rise of 1.4 to 5.4 degrees Celsius (2.5 to 9.7 degrees Fahrenheit). Such is undesirable and would be preferable to prevent, though not the doomsday sometimes incorrectly assumed by some. For example, the sea level rise predicted is 0.09-m to 0.88-m (0.3-ft to 2.9-ft), but there are only so many places where the land is so flat as to be flooded by that little change. There would be various effects from the climate change, like some crops able to be grown in new areas but other types of crops unable to be grown where they are now.
For details, see the large PDF file of the report here.
What may actually cause more disruption in the short-term is peak oil. Like oil production within the U.S. itself eventually peaked and declined over the decades, the same is expected to happen everywhere eventually, even in the Middle East. Anything from plastics to fuel can be synthesized with enough energy, but other energy production like nuclear power has been expanded way too little, so the results of peak oil may be worse than the Great Depression.
Still, that will probably happen but be long past by a hundred years from now. Technological advancement might shape the future more than anything else. I hope there are robots and space habitats everywhere. 
oil will be effectively gone.... long gone as a major fuel source. I would expect cars to be electric. this makes sense as the source for electricity can change and the cars would not need completely redone. I would expect their batteries to be greatly improved.
Communication equipment will be smaller and will likely track our movements much more closely. I would expect there will be more attempts at monitoring peoples thoughts... or using brainwaves to control equipment.
The political/economic environment likely will have changed to less currencies... maybe down to 1.
Most people will be more ignorant. They will watch too much meaningless media and be slaves to the system. We are already headed that way. People's thought and wants are made by the media system.
I'm a little pessimistic. In 100 years we will be dealing with the problems caused by the industrial revolution - not only global warming, but also pollution and the end of abundant oil and other resources. I think will resemble this city: 100 years ago it was a major port, affluent and expanding. Today you find those same beautiful houses decaying and boarded up because we don't have the resources to look after them. The same will happen around the world. Not that everything will collapse, it will just be more and more expensive to maintain the standard of living we had in the last 100 years. China, India, and the US will the major powers. Europe will be less powerful, and Australia still be a great place to live. The one caveat is if we get fusion power going. In that case power will become cheap, and things will not be quite so bad - reducing pollution, and making everything much cheaper.
In 100 years civilization will have collapsed. Aside from a few pockets here and there, the current complex society will have disintegrated, with people abandoning agriculture as the climate becomes too unpredictable and we can't throw raw energy by way of fossil fuels at the problem. The most viable lifestyles will be horticulture (permaculture-style low-intensity food growing) and hunting and gathering (requiring a larger landbase but more flexible.)
The concepts of nation-states, corporations, and large-scale conquest and empire will be history. Life won't be perfect, but it'll be a hell of a lot better than that under civilization.
For tons of great thought on these matters, visit Anthropik at http://anthropik.com Considering how the world was a hundred years ago, and also the historic fact that our social evolution and the ratio of events in a year tends to increase since Antiquity in an exponential way, it might turn to be very, very different from what it is right now in 2100. My own goal is to live up to 111 years to see 2101 (but that's prolly an utopy...) 
Still it can turn to be for the worst or the better. No one can predict it at this moment. In 1900, who would have guessed that we'd go throught all of this? That we'd walk on the moon, have two world wars, get cars everywhere in the streets, create television, have a nuclear strike, and so on?
The kind of very, very large question 
After a 100 years Frihost will have its 102nd birthday.
But, back on topic, it is really difficult to imagine how different the world would be. The pessimistic way, we can imagine no world at all, or a world where robots rule, there is only death and destruction, and all sorts of other evil things.
Or we could go the optimistic way, and imagine a world where kind humans rule, with no environmental pollution, no global warming, no terrorism, and all sorts of angel-y things.
I certainly like the second one. But to make it like that, we have to start, NOW!
Easier said than done. 
Nature can be its own worst enemy... the vast majority of pollution is caused by things we cannot control.. even nature itself. I personally believe that this whole global warming thing is a natural cycle that existed way before we had to technology to pollute... we came out of the ice age way before the internal combustion engine was developed... .and no matter what we do.. we WILL have another ice age again.
I think by that time the human race will have destroyed itself, or at least most of it, at least I hope. Its only a matter of time until A. Huge WWIII nuclear war, B. Huge virus outbreak C. Global warming kills us all. And no I am not a pessimist I actually want this to happen, well to a certain degree. The sooner it happens the sooner rapture will happen and the sooner I get to heaven.
i dont know whether anyone agrees with me but i think everything would have been better off if the human race hadn't evolved from the stone age. The humans worked for a living and the Earth was healthy and not dying. I mean a lot of people dont exactly work hard for a living. Sitting behind a counter i mcdonalds eating a burger isn't my idea of work. Its just free money for those who "cant be bothered". Maybe if we weren't so intelligent everything would have been better. No over population, no polution. Ok there would've been a lot more diseases and people dying but they led a healthier lifestyle in the stone age and scientists have proved that they generally lived longer back then because they didnt just eat fast food. I saw a t.v program about this man who lives on his own with his dog in the countryside in America. He built his own hut and just hunts for food and lives simply. He was in great health and he was 100. Sadly he died 3 years after the program. 103 was a good age and proves that if we lived like that we'd live longer.
100 years? I'll be happy, and slightly surprised, if we as a civilization make it much past 2011.
| divinitywolf wrote: |
| i dont know whether anyone agrees with me but i think everything would have been better off if the human race hadn't evolved from the stone age. The humans worked for a living and the Earth was healthy and not dying. |
The thing is, us humans being as we are, that our progression was always inevitable. If you put a male and a female human together pretty much anywhere on the planet they will strive to expand, improve and developed technologies (of different forms - I'm not talking about electronic gadgets, I'm talking about the very basics here, for example developing pots to cook in). It's the way we are, so even if we go back to the Stone Age the progression from there on will follow almost the same route as it did for us this time.
In 100 years the world will be very different. We will probably have run out of fossil fuels and the average temperature will be a few degrees higher (as little as 5 degrees centigrade, maybe more); as a result of this the sea levels will have risen drastically.
So what will this mean? Well, aside from the extinction of thousands of species of animals it will probably produce mass death amongst humans - starting with countries like Africa. Water will close in and flood many sea-side resorts around the world, across the equator will be huge levels of heat and expanded desert. I'm guessing that the Amazon rainforests will be mostly gone by then.
Levels of carbon dioxide and methane (a gas 20 times more deadly than carbon dioxide in terms of increasing Global Warming) are now being released at an uncontrollable rate. Peat bogs the size of Europe in Siberia are starting to unfreeze, they contain more methane than we could ever hope to combat.
I'm afraid the only methods to really save the world now have to be drastic and highly inconvenient. For example, we have to stop 99.9% of plane flights around the world so you won't be able to go on holiday. Furthermore, methods of transport which produce carbon dioxide need to be banned worldwide - people in developed countries need to switch back to the old way of life. The old way of life? I mean when people used to walk to work every day, and children went to their local school. This transition is practically impossible but highly necessary.
I'm going to make a future prediction: Unless we evacuate this planet soon we shall all die in our own muddle and self-pity. And that's me looking on the bright side.Ninjakannon, I agree. I have pretty much given up hope that it is even possible to change the course we are on now. We are on the downward curve. Basically I think the sooner society collapses the better off we all are. Somewhere somehow some people will survive, and hopefully they will be smart enough to learn from the past, and look at the Earth as a giver, and not us as takers. The Native Americans had the right idea along with the natives of many other countries. But of course the Europeans had to invade America and the rest of the world. Lol, ok a little of topic but whatever.
| ninjakannon wrote: |
| divinitywolf wrote: | | i dont know whether anyone agrees with me but i think everything would have been better off if the human race hadn't evolved from the stone age. The humans worked for a living and the Earth was healthy and not dying. |
The thing is, us humans being as we are, that our progression was always inevitable. If you put a male and a female human together pretty much anywhere on the planet they will strive to expand, improve and developed technologies (of different forms - I'm not talking about electronic gadgets, I'm talking about the very basics here, for example developing pots to cook in). It's the way we are, so even if we go back to the Stone Age the progression from there on will follow almost the same route as it did for us this time. |
yeah but what if God or something similar made us go back to the stoneage every time we started to progress. It'd be a bit strange but better in general for all of us. | divinitywolf wrote: |
| yeah but what if God or something similar made us go back to the stoneage every time we started to progress. It'd be a bit strange but better in general for all of us. |
Assuming this scenario occurs, if this was for the good of the world and humanity why would God not just wait until the point just before humans started to die in mass because of the huge amount of pollution they had caused? I'd rather not get onto the subject of God here, as it all gets rather complicated. 
