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 😀

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    I’ll be long gone and I have no kids by choice. Hopefully the human race will be extinct and the planet can recover.

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      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.

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        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.

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                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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      Thankfully, due to the mass pushback against billionaires hoarding wealth, everything will be cheaper.

      I am not as optimistic as you.

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      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

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    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.

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    Extreme longevity and good health, atomic precise manufacturing, if the climat didn’t go to shit we’d be quite well off IMO.

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        Once ‘extreme longevity and good health’ are solved, there’s actually an incentive for rich people to want poor people to have it. Already you have rich people complaining about the lower birthrates and aging populations. If they could have their way, everyone would remain young and healthy so they can keep working, consuming and making rich people rich.

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          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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      I believe there will be life. Life always finds a way. Unless we get hit by an asteroid or a huge nuclear bomb…

      However life will be much harsher. I believe the human population will be declining due to harsher living conditions. Entire species will go instinct for sure.

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      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.

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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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      People riot against simple 15 minute cities already. I’m not that optimisticfor that level of forwards planning.