Like previous great time travelers such as Marty McFly, I’ve managed to step into the future year of 7010 and visit the coastal town of Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston was a popular tourist attraction for family, so I figured it would’ve been great to see it in the future, but I was amiss to find it underwater. The more structurally intact areas of the East Coast built consistently higher dams and walls to avoid being taken over by the increasing sea levels. By the mid-2050s however, Charleston and the rest of the East Coast would not be able to battle the increasing water levels after the polar ice caps completely melted due to the lack of carbon control measures.
Finding alternative sources for carbon seemed to be muddled too deeply in politics and lobbying efforts in most governments, therefore many societies worked towards building safe zones and damming efforts. A few nations even turned to the space race which enabled a newer lower orbit society to live above the ground, but the population appeared to be minimal due to the infrastructure costs.
In the end, humanity had avoided nuclear catastrophe by attempting to solve desertification and finding alternative supplies for potable water. Additionally, humanity developed better ways to survive in a warmer climate and a carbon-rich environment. So in 7010, of the 5 million cubic miles of ice on Earth, there was barely any signs of it left. Most cities now had climate-controlled habitats where the outside weather now hovers at roughly 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
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