This week I did not stray very far, traveling a few miles down the coast to Charleston SC. The real travel this week was the trip 5000 years into the future. Global warming, uncorrected has made most of the tropics inhabitable, as over time sea levels have put the majority of present-day cities underwater, with the coastline having moved a minimum of 60 miles or more inland, and almost all of Florida is now underwater, with the average sea level 230 feet above what it currently is today. Visiting current-day Charleston now requires you to dive 220 feet underneath the ocean, and the years have not been kind.
Global warming continued to occur through an interruption of the natural processes that maintained relative balance throughout our current history. 5000 years into the future, industry to simply keep humanity alive continues to destroy our world with pollution, and with even less space on earth, the destruction of our earth and consumption of finite resources continues at exponential rates.
What we are experiencing now with global warming is a direct reflection of human interaction on our environment - the destruction of trees, landscapes, coastlines and waterways, consumption of fossil fuels and chemicals, have all taken a radical turn since the industrial and agricultural age. This is not an astrological coincidence, it is humanity affecting our environment.
Despite attempts to plant more trees, stop consuming fossil fuels, and control human growth, there is no turning back, humans simply are too destructive to this planet at this population size.
Other, less drastic advances in technology over the years have enabled humanity to reduce pollution to survivable levels around major cities, but in 7018, the vast majority of earth is no longer habitable. The vast majority of hope, technology and scientific focus is no longer on saving planet earth, but on leaving it behind, with a desire not to make the same mistakes in the future...
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