I definitely believe climate change will transform our existence, but im still torn to what extent. Mostly, because I believe in our ability to create technology.
I think that if we continue on our current path, (Nothing at all changes. We still try to live in cities and grow food in the soil, and depend on rivers and lakes) we will become extinct. Eventually, this earth will not support us as is. Maybe If we come up with some large scale carbon capture system, like tomorrow, we can maintain some semblance of normalcy latter down the road.
We will have to find innovative ways to take shelter from the outside elements, grow our food indoors, and make water from…something. The question is, how innovative will we be? Will we come up with some sort of biodome or terraforming technology. We can manipulate indoor spaces to grow large amounts of food now, but will we create all the components and nutrients without our current industrialized processes. Will we create a water extraction solution that will seem akin to alchemy at worst, or at best find new ways of seeking water deep within our earth. Or maybe we’ll just figure out how to really utilize that pesky fusion reactor, finally build the damn enterprise, and hop ship to another planet.
No matter what, I think that the human population will take a hit. Even with innovation, there’s no way we will sustain everyone currently inhabiting this planet. I think our population size will be determined by what we can invent. Eventually, if we don’t invent the right tools, we will go extinct when the climate gets to its furthest extreme.
Maybe the climate will swing back around, or maybe the planet will turn into a ball of dust, but that will be so far in the future, it’s silly to think about now. For now, honestly, I just keep picturing a world kind of like in those Myst books from the 90s…
I definitely believe climate change will transform our existence, but im still torn to what extent. Mostly, because I believe in our ability to create technology.
I think that if we continue on our current path, (Nothing at all changes. We still try to live in cities and grow food in the soil, and depend on rivers and lakes) we will become extinct. Eventually, this earth will not support us as is. Maybe If we come up with some large scale carbon capture system, like tomorrow, we can maintain some semblance of normalcy latter down the road.
We will have to find innovative ways to take shelter from the outside elements, grow our food indoors, and make water from…something. The question is, how innovative will we be? Will we come up with some sort of biodome or terraforming technology. We can manipulate indoor spaces to grow large amounts of food now, but will we create all the components and nutrients without our current industrialized processes. Will we create a water extraction solution that will seem akin to alchemy at worst, or at best find new ways of seeking water deep within our earth. Or maybe we’ll just figure out how to really utilize that pesky fusion reactor, finally build the damn enterprise, and hop ship to another planet.
No matter what, I think that the human population will take a hit. Even with innovation, there’s no way we will sustain everyone currently inhabiting this planet. I think our population size will be determined by what we can invent. Eventually, if we don’t invent the right tools, we will go extinct when the climate gets to its furthest extreme.
Maybe the climate will swing back around, or maybe the planet will turn into a ball of dust, but that will be so far in the future, it’s silly to think about now. For now, honestly, I just keep picturing a world kind of like in those Myst books from the 90s…