Mankind needs time, 300 years at least, to solve some of our more pressing problems, and to develop new technologies. Climate change, plastics, and overpopulation amongst the foremost of our problems, will all need addressing. And the threat of the U.S. collapsing and fascism and strong men coming to power are also very real threats, indeed likely eventual certainties.
Overpopulation (outside of Africa) looks to be largely on the way to healing itself, what with aging populations, the high cost of living, and other factors such as (the relic of China's 'one child policy') stemming the worst of future runaway population growth scenarios.
Climate change is perhaps the most pressing of our problems, followed closely by our increased rate of poisoning our planet. Both of which will put mankind in a race with himself and his own destructive tendencies.
Even as I read good news today, the World passed a key threshold of generating 30% of its total energy supplied by Green Energy Sources (in the Guardian today), I also read depressing news that 73% of environmental scientists now believe the earth won't just pass 1.5C of total warming in the next year or so, but will likely see 2.5C of warming by 2040 or 2050, which would have terrible effects on the earth and its climate.
We need time. We need technological breakthroughs that buy us more of it, so that we can ramp up the changes we need in time to avert the unthinkable from happening. But this really is the question. Can we act fast enough? Will we act in time to save ourselves and pur children's futures?
That remains to be seen.
