Oil, electricity and the internet have profoundly altered our planet, but what will come next? Gaia Vince wants your help in predicting them.
Look ahead five years... ten years... fifty years, perhaps. You will
be different. Older. Perhaps no longer alive. Now think about where you
will live in years to come. Think about the world as a whole. It too
will be different, but it's harder to imagine how.
When we try to
imagine the future, we tend to look to the past for clues and
extrapolate forwards. But we are living at a time of planetary change.
Over the past century, humans have utterly transformed the planet on
such a scale that many believe we are entering a new geological era, the Anthropocene.
In recent decades we have been polluting the atmosphere and changing
global climates, reducing biodiversity, re-plumbing rivers and other
waterways, raising sea levels and acidifying the oceans, depleting the
world's mineral and natural resources, among many other things.
Will we continue on this trajectory? Or will something happen to shift us onto a new course?
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