Utopia? Flying jetson cars? Mole people living underground? Everything’s on fire and humanity ends? I’m just curious about anyone’s thoughts in general 😀
No 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.
We’re already on fire everywhere in Canada and it’s not even wildfire season yet. If all the tempofrost melts what will be left will be barren lands wholly unsuitable for agriculture.
Not 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
Hot. Heat waves. Forest fires. Sea level rising. Floods. Droughts. Water shortages. Extinction of various animals and plants. Collapse of supply chains and resource shortages. Rising nationalism and distrust. Mass migration, mass starvation, mass casualty events.
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.
Very bleak. I see it going one of two ways, with neither being happy. Like today as well as historically, the most devious and cutthroat people make it to the top.
The first way things could play out is if the rich elites are forcefully kicked out of power and their resources are up for the taking. There’s no way this can happen though until the middle/ lower class are pushed to their breaking point. Climate change will have led to the desertification of a lot of habitable land as well as the biodiversity crisis will have wiped out most pollinators making food production difficult. This would essentially be societal collapse, which means new devious cutthroat people will become something of warlords of small regions. Something like Mad Max.
The second way is if the rich elites continually find a way to consolidate power until we hit something of a sci-fi capitalism dystopia. Corporations and the rich will have so much power, personal armies, and influence that they act as nation states. They will do whatever it takes to hold onto their power and keep the rest of the people as poor, powerless, and exploited as possible while they sit in their ivory towers.
This 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.
I don’t know why anyone thinks flying cars are remotely a good idea. Between mechanical issues and shitty drivers you’ll end up with missiles crashing into people’s roofs all day.
I’m assuming by that point, you wouldn’t have people driving anymore, it would all be automatic. Likely hooked into some sort of flight control system that would allow the vehicles to navigate around each other and avoid collisions.
Plus, look at it this way. Accidents are common now because roads restrict cars into shared paths of travel, requiring drivers to successfully avoid colliding with other people moving very close to them. If you are able to fly, you’d be able to beeline from point A to point B, distributing vehicles across a much broader area of travel. Plus, the added vertical axis means you won’t even necessarily collide if your vehicle can just move up or down around potential midair obstacles.
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.
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.
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’ve checked out. I’ve been voting and advocating for Green and progressive polities for as long as I could, but here we are. I’ll do my best to noy shitty up the place too much while I exit, but after I’m gone, I’m gone.
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
It’s a policy level choice what’s happened in that movie like selling the FDA to Brawndo or completely failing to provide education to all of the kids that guy had in the intro.
We are massively more resilient than cockroaches, everything we’ve thrown at us we’ve survived. 50,000 years ago it is hypothesized that due to catastrophies we can’t even possibly begin to emulate, like supervolcanoes and ice ages, the entire human population was reduced to around 10,000 breeding individuals. Yet 50,000 years later here we are.
The only upside is that if things get bad enough, the survivors won’t be able to achieve our excesses again because we’ve already exhausted all the irreplaceable easily accessible deposits of fossil fuels and minerals.
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No 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 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.
We’re already on fire everywhere in Canada and it’s not even wildfire season yet. If all the tempofrost melts what will be left will be barren lands wholly unsuitable for agriculture.
Some arid wasteland after societal collapse caused by climate changes
Don’t forget irradiated by the climate wars
Not 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
It’s supposed to be 108° F a few days soon in my area 🔥
Hot. Heat waves. Forest fires. Sea level rising. Floods. Droughts. Water shortages. Extinction of various animals and plants. Collapse of supply chains and resource shortages. Rising nationalism and distrust. Mass migration, mass starvation, mass casualty events.
So, like today.
Can’t really say I disagree.
You can always count on situation’s capacity to just become worse.
We can read about all the observations, predictions and all in here after all and the media is decently active about writing on it too:
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. There is even a hint in there on that:
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.
https://youtu.be/LxgMdjyw8uw
Great vid!
I 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.
Also nukes
Yes, many South Pacific nations will be gone by then due to sea level rising.
Very bleak. I see it going one of two ways, with neither being happy. Like today as well as historically, the most devious and cutthroat people make it to the top.
The first way things could play out is if the rich elites are forcefully kicked out of power and their resources are up for the taking. There’s no way this can happen though until the middle/ lower class are pushed to their breaking point. Climate change will have led to the desertification of a lot of habitable land as well as the biodiversity crisis will have wiped out most pollinators making food production difficult. This would essentially be societal collapse, which means new devious cutthroat people will become something of warlords of small regions. Something like Mad Max.
The second way is if the rich elites continually find a way to consolidate power until we hit something of a sci-fi capitalism dystopia. Corporations and the rich will have so much power, personal armies, and influence that they act as nation states. They will do whatever it takes to hold onto their power and keep the rest of the people as poor, powerless, and exploited as possible while they sit in their ivory towers.
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.
This 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.
Man, I’m holding hope for mole people.
The way the world is going, it will easily be Cyberpunk.
I 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.
I don’t know why anyone thinks flying cars are remotely a good idea. Between mechanical issues and shitty drivers you’ll end up with missiles crashing into people’s roofs all day.
I’m assuming by that point, you wouldn’t have people driving anymore, it would all be automatic. Likely hooked into some sort of flight control system that would allow the vehicles to navigate around each other and avoid collisions.
Plus, look at it this way. Accidents are common now because roads restrict cars into shared paths of travel, requiring drivers to successfully avoid colliding with other people moving very close to them. If you are able to fly, you’d be able to beeline from point A to point B, distributing vehicles across a much broader area of travel. Plus, the added vertical axis means you won’t even necessarily collide if your vehicle can just move up or down around potential midair obstacles.
Plus, think of the constant noise pollution.
Imagine road rage.
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…
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.
I’ll be long gone and I have no kids by choice. Hopefully the human race will be extinct and the planet can recover.
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.
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!
What they wrote:
Yeah, right. Likable attitude.
Fair enough lol. I like his 20 year attitude specifically on face surface.
I’ve checked out. I’ve been voting and advocating for Green and progressive polities for as long as I could, but here we are. I’ll do my best to noy shitty up the place too much while I exit, but after I’m gone, I’m gone.
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.
I am not as optimistic as you.
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
Bring on the stillsuits, Fremen and sandworms!!!
Crowded. But KSP2 might be out of beta.
I fear we’re going the idiocracy route. Lower and lower intelligence of the population in general.
It’s a policy level choice what’s happened in that movie like selling the FDA to Brawndo or completely failing to provide education to all of the kids that guy had in the intro.
I’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.
We are massively more resilient than cockroaches, everything we’ve thrown at us we’ve survived. 50,000 years ago it is hypothesized that due to catastrophies we can’t even possibly begin to emulate, like supervolcanoes and ice ages, the entire human population was reduced to around 10,000 breeding individuals. Yet 50,000 years later here we are.
The only upside is that if things get bad enough, the survivors won’t be able to achieve our excesses again because we’ve already exhausted all the irreplaceable easily accessible deposits of fossil fuels and minerals.