What does our future look like? Arup is an international engineering firm
that delves deeply in the design of human systems. Part of Arup is Foresight, a “think tank”
that tries to envision the paths societies could potentially travel as a component
of how engineered products and structures will fit into those societies. One of their projects is the development of four potential futures for humanity by 2050.
These future scenarios range from enlightened global action to keep warming
below 1.5 degrees to an edge of extinction view that posits a world like this:
The Amazon rainforest is gone, sold to make cardboard for online deliveries. Natural resources are being extracted everywhere. "Geo-engineering and GMO crop development are the only way to feed the global population. Seeds are controlled by Holycrop, an American-based business, which monopolises the market." Domes are built over cities to enclose breathable air. "Isolationism has been on the rise for years, and society is driven by a fear of the ‘foreign’ and ‘different’. This has been exacerbated by an unheralded number of climate refugees. Economic disparity has increased dramatically.
There
is a poll on the TreeHugger site that allows you to predict which is the most
likely future for humanity.
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