THE Earth in 2100 Thread (merged)

[ohanian]

The truth is who cares since you will never live to see it anyway. It might as well be heaven populated by 72 billion female virgins. It makes no difference whatsoever.

[Roryrules]

The truth is who cares since you will never live to see it anyway. It might as well be heaven populated by 72 billion female virgins. It makes no difference whatsoever.

Erm, if current increases in life expectancy continue quite a few posters on here might make it to 2100. It's not that far away, especially for us young'uns. So yeah, I care what Earth might be like in 2100 because I may well still be around, as might any future offspring of mine.

As for predictions, I'm going to be fairly bold here and predict that things will largely chug along as usual. Of course, there will be change, especially away from fossil fuels, but it'll largely be a gradual process. I'm not doubting that there'll be challenge ahead, but I reckon humanity will make it more or less intact.

[JohnRM]

If there are any humans left by 2100, it will be because their parents and grandparents survived decades of hell and utter hopelessness.

[radon]

Peak oil will be the thing of the past and this website will become boring.

Or not?

[JohnRM]

Peak oil will be the thing of the past and this website will become boring.

Or not?

Peak Solar!

"OMFG, when are we going to suck the last bit of sunlight out of the Earth?"

"Experts are saying we're going to hit peak in 2115!"

"No way, NOAA says we've got twice as much sunlight as we need"

"Dude, its 11:59! Wake up!"

[GASMON]

Re: Planet Earth 2100?

A corporate ruled bloody nightmare.

Gas

[radon]

Re: Planet Earth 2100?

A corporate ruled bloody nightmare.

Gas

Sounds like BAU.

[Plantagenet]

After the Mayan apocalypse of 2012, the giant Christian Rapture of 2048, the shiite vs. sunni suicide bomb wars of the 2070s, and the nuclear exchanges and germ warfare unleashed during the Inuit vs. Ubangi race wars of the 2090s there just won't be many people left by 2100.

[Timo]

In retrospect, the 21st Century sure was a big disappointment. In hindsight, we should have had more forethought.

[Corella]

I´d think it better to derive scenarios from acts than doing the opposite! Most radical advise everywhere within the forum come from personal projections from inside the authors heads. That´s hardly helpful.

[Ibon]

Most radical advise everywhere within the forum come from personal projections from inside the authors heads. That´s hardly helpful.

Not only the radical ones...the reason any of us have hung on to this topic as long as we have has something to do with what you are stating here. And that is that the consequences of resource constraints in general represent a potential force to undermine the projections in all our heads whether they be political, economic, social, religious, etc.

I only remain active with this topic as long as I see the the way that peak oil, climate change and other resource constraints can act as catalysts toward a forced transformation........ because believe me, we are not capable of doing this willfully.........

[Corella]

Agreed Ibon, i quite share the same hope. Personally less optimistic according species distinction than yourself. And: i think issues might be even more delicate than physical resource constraints for itself. The grow of population came and have to come from biosphere. Physical resources are the means of harvesting it. This potentially boosts discussed effects of physical resource shortages. Most discussions approaching this are about fertilizer and its production. But that view is much too short. Population is depending on the grade and efficiency to make use from biosphere. I think most people here know about this classic:

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1 ... 9029384067

[Corella]

Correction: "species extinction".

Below please find a nice paper with a good summery of Vitousek´s findings (page 622) (forum member Cephalotus gave that hint in the German forum). Further on the author tries to estimate a bit closer the possible bias which is a very nice example no one can see sharp pictures inside nebula balls unless just imaging it. And it might give a hint, that there are more perspectives than just oil-flow-charts...

http://www.vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/up ... 13-636.pdf