Before traveling to the future, I am reminded of a Futurama episode. In the episode it is explained that in the future giant ice cubes are dropped in the ocean to remedy global warming. Of course, this is silly and probably poking fun at politicians more than science. Some say that the year 2050 will be as far removed technologically from 2019 and 1850 is to 2019. Being almost 30 years old myself, I don't find that too hard to believe. When I was born cell phones barely existed, and the internet was yet to be adopted. Point being, our technology is exponentially growing, and solutions we don't even realize are at hand.
Stepping out of a time machine 5000 years in the future I am unsure of what I'll see. Unsurprising, I feel clean air fill my lungs, and witness a blue sky above. Many of the problems we face in the 21st century do not exist in the 7000's. We are now masters of our Earth. Batteries can store as much energy as we need, and nearly all of our energy consuming technology is 99% efficient. Someone, perhaps an AI from this time explains that humans eventually slowed the acceleration of climate change. Large efforts were made to convert energy to solar, wind, tidal, and nuclear. Despite the different world, the sky looks no different.
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