What do you feel like life will be like on earth in 100 years?

3 years ago by Lifecoach5000 to c/asklemmy

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 😀

LostCause 34 points 3 years ago

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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EuroNutellaMan 10 points 3 years ago

I think OP asked for 100 tears into the future, not today.

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LostCause 5 points 3 years ago

They did, but writing "the same as now, but worse", would‘ve been a bit boring.

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EuroNutellaMan 1 point 3 years ago

good point

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Overzeetop 9 points 3 years ago

So, like today.

Can't really say I disagree.

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LostCause 8 points 3 years ago

We can read about all the observations, predictions and all in here after all and the media is decently active about writing on it too:

https://www.ipcc.ch/...

I‘m just hopeless that the "policymakers" are honestly doing much to avert it. There is even a hint in there on that:

Vulnerable communities who have historically contributed the least to current climate change are disproportionately affected (high confidence).

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Atom_0317 6 points 3 years ago

I feel you. I have an MS in Environmental Policy and it is hard to stay positive. I watch this video to remind me that strides are being made in the right direction.

https://youtu.be/LxgMdjyw8uw

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Lifecoach5000 2 points 3 years ago

Great vid!

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hoi_polloi 1 point 3 years ago

You can always count on situation's capacity to just become worse.

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Cobe98 2 points 3 years ago

Yes, many South Pacific nations will be gone by then due to sea level rising.

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Jaximus 2 points 3 years ago

Also nukes

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Lifecoach5000 2 points 3 years ago

You know your user name fits this scenario

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Steinsprut 26 points 3 years ago

Some arid wasteland after societal collapse caused by climate changes

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Chainweasel 6 points 3 years ago

Don't forget irradiated by the climate wars

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entropicdrift 6 points 3 years ago

Not to mention the areas that would have been OK after climate change are devastated by mass migration of tens of millions more people than they could've sustainably supported

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Lifecoach5000 5 points 3 years ago

It’s supposed to be 108° F a few days soon in my area 🔥

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-hypnotoad- 20 points 3 years ago

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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minorsecond 12 points 3 years ago

Plus, think of the constant noise pollution.

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Cobe98 3 points 3 years ago

Imagine road rage.

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Stovetop 2 points 3 years ago

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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Mediocre_Bard 15 points 3 years ago

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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thebestaquaman 2 points 3 years ago

Fish and Potatoes my brother, fish and potatoes...

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Ivyy_LemmyW 13 points 3 years ago

The way the world is going, it will easily be Cyberpunk.

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Saigonauticon 21 points 3 years ago

I live in Asia. It already is like that here.

No room to live, and no room to die. Hell is a kettle with a concrete sky.

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dotslashme 11 points 3 years ago

Damn that is a bleak sentence, but poetically put.

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Infernal_pizza 2 points 3 years ago

The way the world is going it will be cockroaches and single called organisms

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Criton 11 points 3 years ago

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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MortalWombat 9 points 3 years ago

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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Lifecoach5000 5 points 3 years ago

Can I side step and ask how you feel about 20 years then?

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Criton 11 points 3 years ago

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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Lifecoach5000 7 points 3 years ago

I like your attitude and feel quite the same. I hope you have a prosperous life!

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unsophisticated 1 point 3 years ago

I like your attitude

What they wrote:

Hopefully the human race will be extinct

Yeah, right. Likable attitude.

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EuroNutellaMan 1 point 3 years ago

There's a lot more than just voting that you can do tbh

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Ciari 7 points 3 years ago

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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Lifecoach5000 6 points 3 years ago

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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Entropywins 4 points 3 years ago

Bring on the stillsuits, Fremen and sandworms!!!

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taladar 6 points 3 years ago

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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NewNewAccount 1 point 3 years ago

Doubtful that’s how climate change is going to play out. The majority of the planet will still be very habitable the majority of the time. The extremes will be more extreme and there’ll be more “once in a century” types of weather events (think hurricanes and tornadoes where traditionally there weren’t any).

Eventually the inhabitability and the natural disasters will add up to a sizable amount of deaths. But by that point I think we’ll be too far gone. The planet will take millions of years to recover.

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Sir_Kevin 7 points 3 years ago

I'm not sure there will be life on earth in 100 years.

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Biscuit 2 points 3 years ago
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taladar 1 point 3 years ago

True, the cockroaches or at least some bacteria will likely survive no matter what we do with the planet.

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hoi_polloi 2 points 3 years ago

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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Atom_0317 1 point 3 years ago
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potterman28wxcv 1 point 3 years ago

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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EuroNutellaMan 1 point 3 years ago

An asteroid isn't enough tbh

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pancakes 6 points 3 years ago

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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SmugBedBug 5 points 3 years ago

I fear we're going the idiocracy route. Lower and lower intelligence of the population in general.

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hoi_polloi 1 point 3 years ago

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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Arbiter 5 points 3 years ago

Man, I’m holding hope for mole people.

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Valmond 5 points 3 years ago

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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smokinjoe 4 points 3 years ago

Extreme longevity and good health

Only to those who can afford it.

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didiercool 3 points 3 years ago

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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BastingChemina 3 points 3 years ago

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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hoi_polloi 2 points 3 years ago

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

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tikitaki 3 points 3 years ago

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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hoi_polloi 2 points 3 years ago

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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hoi_polloi 2 points 3 years ago

https://youtu.be/iKC21wDarBo

Here's the Onion's news broadcast for the year 2137. I expect it will be considered more and more prescient as we go.

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gmatkins 2 points 3 years ago

Crowded. But KSP2 might be out of beta.

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MrPumpernickel 1 point 3 years ago

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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MiddleWeigh 1 point 3 years ago

I think we'll have way less people after we drive ourselves into ground with our bad, greedy, I me mine nature.

Think a population akin to north America, pre discovery.(proportionately)

Tbh, they had it pretty well spot on and it got fucked up.

They fought wars etc, but the technology was limited. Their connection to the earth was just that, connected. No middle man. It's the way. And we are going back, slowly but surely. All things settle.

I think the very nature of our minds complicates our own existence. The less we have the better. We are animals. We're smart, but not that smart. We're actually kind of fkn horrible dumb incompetent creatures lol.

Too smart for our own good is an apt phrase.

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ZcaT 1 point 3 years ago

Let me ask my friend give me a moment

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christophski 0 points 3 years ago

An aging population that decided to have no kids so they have no family to help look after them and the countries struggle to provide proper care.

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smokinjoe 3 points 3 years ago

This is one that'll come much sooner than 100 years from now

Hell, it's taking place now to an extent given how little social security actually provides coupled with the number of people who's had their pensions absolutely gutted.

Really tragic end for so many of the most vulnerable people.

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entropicdrift 1 point 3 years ago

Just look at the elderly crime rates in Japan and South Korea. No family to take care of them, so they commit crimes to get the state to house and feed them.

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specialsymbol 0 points 3 years ago

Everything's dried out, devastating storms are ravaging earth, few people have survived and fight each other for the rare food. Wars have scarred the landscape. The largest animals that survived are the size of cats or rats.

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