The World in 2050

Temperatures are increasing day after day. Our carbon footprint is no footprint any longer but looks more like the vessel in Indepedance Day, darkening the planet. Water level is going up and some lands are already overwhelmed. Some people have already had to leave their houses and the land they eventually managed to own. Natality is also rising up and we'll (or they will) be up to 9 billion in 2050.

The survivors of the end of this cycle will have to crowd on small emerged plots. Their body will have evolved so they can live in extrem heat such as 61°C and with a fewer need of water per day. Electricity will no longer exist except in their brains. So no television, no mobile phone, no microwave, no light, nothing. What they'll have left to eat will be roots and generally speaking raw material.

People will fight to feed their children. Fight til they die. It will no longer be food riots but food wars as no government will be no longer viable in such a world.

I am very pessimistic when I have to think about our future. Not because I am myself not an optimistic guy but because all the industrial makers want profit and benefit. No sustainability of the human kind and its conditions of living. Nothing is being done to ensure our future. Nothing at all. Nestlé is draining all the lakes on earth, Suez makes the Bolivians pay to get water. Water is the next war. And not a lot will survive.

I encourage you to watch this brilliant documentary 'Water Makes Money' broadcasted on the channel 'Arte' last March.