Looking Into The Future

but i do like to LOOK far ahead.

as far ahead as it will take for interesting changes to have taken place and left their survivors with a world even better then the one i grew up in, and watched being destroyed by population growth, missmanagement of resources, and missapplication of available technologies.

i do not see a post ecopocalyptic world as a distopian one. rather as a reprieve from the distopia that prevails today.

a distopia that requires massive amounts of cooperative effort to maintian, and is itself, breaking down.

an urbanized population depends on transportation infrastructure for its very survival.

the big mistake of today's transportation infrastructure is its dependence on fossil fuels and the combustion there of.

sea level rise alone, is small potatoes to what human caused climate change portends;
the very possible destruction of the habitability of the only planet in our solar system's goldylocks zone,
and our own solar system being as far as we have as yet any practical way of reaching.

i see an implosion of human population from a rapid mutation and thus multiplication of kinds of diseases,
ascerbated by a lowering of available neutrition.

but i look ahead to a time after that. to the world the furry pointed eared 'meek', shall inhierit, after the great human die-off,
and or mutation and or experimental genetic modification.

a world once again big and its population small, where nature may again cleanse itself to run clean and green.

odds are pretty good really, of there being a green morning after, but pretty much a roll of the dice as to how close to anything we now call human, will be living in it.

at any rate, of course one possibility is that it might never happen. but that seems increasingly unlikely.
and pretending it isn't there making it go away, is even more unlikely.

so the question as i see it at this time isn't whether it can be avoided entirely, but rather of how much can be salvaged.

there is no doubt in my mind, that sapience in some form, is worth salvaging,
and the effort to avoid turning the entire planet into an uninhabitalbe desert, is one thoroughly worth while.