I'm watching Earth 2100. A story-telling on earth's dystopian future. It looks horrendous -- but dystopia FTW! -- The biggest thing that seems to keep popping up is how we are too dependant on fossil fuel which would cause a speedier global warming. Then it says the sea level will rise exponentially.
They say all these things and in my mind, with all these information given to me on a silver platter, so to speak, an abundance of ideas quickly flooded into my mind. We have, in this century, ludicrous resources and insane technological advancements. Surely someone could've taken all that science fiction being spewed into the media and made it real?
Let's take for example our beloved mobile phones. The idea was actually taken by a person who was a keen Trekkie. He saw the hand-held communication device and thought it was a cool idea. As years passed, our darling phones have morphed from a brick-like weight and size to one that is as lithe as a credit card and doubles or triples up as too many other things. Not only do we use our phones to keep in touch, we now use it as a navigation system, media unit, storage device, camera and so on.
With such a burst of innovation, I ask you now, what of underwater cities? What of massive energy creating structures? What of things that help and not detriment whatever left of nature we have that isn't trying to kill us?
Maybe I'm being a little bit too optimistic about the state of our world. Maybe I think that the world leaders would stop their arms race and gather their forces on the most dire of threats. Surely mass extinction of our species would make even the hardiest of souls weak in the knees. As surreal as it sounds, we are all doomed if we don't find a way to get out of this. We have thus dug our own graves.
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