They say we can’t predict the future, but I’m damn sure we can do a lot to control the course of it.
When we look back on our own past, our country’s past, or even the world’s past … there will be a hundred signposts that we missed that could have taken us down a better path. Maybe it’s our job to now leave our own signposts. The events of tomorrow can only be guided by the events of today. If we decide to do nothing today then nothing will happen tomorrow.
Let us assume that the straight line we call ‘time’ continues on its merry way, and as we follow it to see what has happened – or not happened – we’ll be able to see that much of the events in the future are not without our influence. August 15, 2017 is a very important date in the future. Probably the most important day, as it is the first day in our future, and every event beyond this tiny 24 hours will be shaped by it.
Shall we follow that line? I’ve found the line here, at Future Timeline and a lot of what awaits us is unpleasant, yet clearly our doing. Can it be undone? Probably not, but we can control the scope of it. Anyway, let’s get moving, there’s lots to see:
2020: Glacier National Park and other regions are becoming ice-free.
2035: The Arctic is becoming ice-free in Summer.
2040: Average global temperatures have risen by two degree.
2042-2047: The majority of primate species are disappearing from the wild
2045: Major extinctions of animal and plant life.
2050: 45% of the Amazon Rainforest has been destroyed. Air quality and visibility is declining. Bushfires have tripled in some regions. The Dead Sea is drying up.
2060: Global mass migrations of refugees. Flood barriers erected in New York.
2070: Average global temperatures have risen by 4 degrees.
2080: Polar bears face extinction. One in five lizard species are extinct. Deadly heatwaves plague Europe. Traditional agriculture is decimated.
2099: Sea levels are wreaking havoc around the world. 80% of the Amazon rainforest has been lost.
2100: Extreme drought is effecting one-third of the planet. Emperor penguins face extinction.
2190: The West Antarctic ice sheet is starting to disintegrate. This area will later be populated by over 1 million people who settle on the exposed land surface.
2200: Artificial intelligence dominates the planet.
I’ve only selected a handful of the zillions of things that await us in the future, but of those, are they really beyond our control? Can they be changed by whatever happens on August 15, 2017?
They say we can’t predict the future, but I’m damn sure we can do a lot to control the course of it.
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