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- Herausgeber: Books on Demand
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
This is a short writing about what the future might look like for the earth and us humans who live on it. Perhaps disease, environmental destruction and war will make the earth uninhabitable and force us to move into space or live under the surface of the sea. This is a fictional story about a future scenario for humanity. Vision or reality?
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022
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A thought about the future
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The text and story that follows is fictional and a fantasy about what the future on Earth will look like. It is the author's own view of the future and what it is like on earth that is the basis for assumptions, statements and details in the text.
2050
It is now the year 2050 and Lana walks through Stockholm's inner city with her very light bag in carbon fiber, filled with the most necessary clothes and daily hygiene items.
On her face she has a pair of strong modern sunglasses to block out the strong sun.
In order not to be fried in the hot summer weather, she wears a silver-colored thin, light and all-covering suit.
Nowadays the sun is so hot and the ozone layer so non-existent that it is not possible to stay outside for more than a few hours at a time. It is vital to protect both eyes and skin from the sun's toxic rays and shut out the extreme heat.
Stockholm is not the worst place to live in this case. In the Mediterranean countries and in America the heat and drought are much worse. There, the people live in underground dwellings or in facilities out along the coasts just below sea level.
In Sweden, we have so far managed relatively well, we can live well indoors and feel free enough to go out for a short walk with protective clothing.
The food is delivered home through narrow tunnels with automatic carts that drive right into our kitchens. The food products are automatically ordered when they are out of stock.
Milk, cheese and butter are produced in factories synthetically. Cows no longer exist and neither do other livestock. Meat is no longer available either. Those of us who grew up in the 80s have had to adapt to vegan and vegetarian food. We eat a lot of mushroom-based products and of course the vegetables that are grown in underground rock rooms with artificial lighting and a temperate artificial climate.
Drinking water cannot be produced easily from the sea. It is cheaper to manufacture in factories. It happens completely automatically and robots take care of the maintenance. The sea is far too toxic to drink without complicated purification. Centuries of toxic dumping, nuclear submarine wrecks and nuclear power accidents have devastated our oceans.
The meadows that were so beautiful to look at a few decades ago are burnt away by sun and drought.
Moose, deer and reindeer, wolves, bears and foxes are no longer in the forests. The forests are dead.
The sea has risen several meters after the polar ice caps melted a lot in recent years.
When we have to travel, or move longer distances, we ride airplanes as before, but now the plane is powered by processed water that drives special engines on the wings. They are propeller planes that fly quietly and fairly quickly on medium distances. On longer distances we actually go by train. Yes, a new kind of train that runs on the old rails from the beginning of the 2000s. When I say longer distances, I mean approximately Stockholm to Malmö.
We don't go abroad that often now because then we have to go by train and ship. It is too expensive for ordinary people to fly out into the world. Then you have to travel with a kind of rocket that goes out into the outer atmosphere and then dives down towards the destination. The journey from Stockholm to Tokyo takes just over 3 hours but costs several months' wages for ordinary civil servants.
Ironically, going into space is cheaper. That is where we have our future. Namely, we have to move into space. It is underway now in 2050.
The countries of the world have managed to agree to build a giant residential complex on our moon. It will cover almost the entire surface of the moon and accommodate many millions of people.
