I think that by the year 2050, they only animals we will see will be in zoos, and that is if we haven't destroyed ourselves to the point of extinction. I think trees will also be a rarity and a true winter will have been forgotten due to global
soraenRainForest/Andes/6426
it will look more like a garbage dump than it does today
The year 2012 is the year of the regeneration of Earth. To live in the new Earth, all thoughts of darkness have to be gone. The Creator will not let the darkness of this world enter the next world. You need to love all that is Light to be ar
RainForest/Andes/1029
I hope and pray for transfomation in the way which humans live their lives, and become more and more connected to Nature and deeply link to her source. When this occurs then life on earth will be one of equilibriumn and Peace.
alesscTheTropics/Cabana/9505
Not greatly different - perhaps a bit more water here and there. Oh, and more over-grown in Africa thanks to wide-spread depopulation following HIV/AIDS. Possibly in other areas such as India too? The 'developed world' will probably be greener, thanks to greater education and a down-turn in heavy industry. Developing countries will show the oppostie, especially China.
A list of changes perhaps?
The Antarctic will be smaller, due to the collapse of a number of ice shelves.
The deforestation of the equator and Siberia will continue, leading to increased erosion of the land, destruction of coral reefs (where apllicable), but perhaps increased production in coastal areas.
Desrts will continue to grow
Increased urbanisation
Say good-bye to the tiger and panda, as well as a number of other large mammals.
DogwhelkRainForest/8637
Bad news if things do not change!!!!!!!!!
chenad68
I want to move my homepages to Geocities and do not have one yet
two scenarios: one where we are working hard to reverse
the damage that has been done and one where we are not
only killing our surroundings but also ourselves
naturegrrlRainForest/2314
Hopefully, we (humans) will have our acts cleaned up and will be properaly taking care of our Mother Earth. But honestly, I think we might destroy the Earth before the year 2050.
NissyRainForest/Canopy/9137
Probably much the same as it does now. Hopefully we'll expand the Rainforests and stop using so much petroleum.
Bill
No farm lands, no forests, just cities. We'll eat recycled food because some contractors didn't think about the fact that we'd be out of food in 50 years when they built a bank and strip mall over farmland.
Ricky
It will probably be a barren waste land by then. Human effect on the natural environment is so vast and impossible to stop.
MarneeRainForest/Vines/5992
On a day like today, I would say bare of most vegetation, very hot, minimally populated. On a good day, I would see all current systemic problems solved and a stable population using resources wisely and sustainably.
seasealRainForest/7428
Haven't the foggiest--but if climate change turns out catastrophic, it will be bad, from a human viewpoint.
Unfortunately I think the pollution levels will be dramatically higher and many of our few remaining natural habitats will be gone unless there is a change in human behavior.
LadySkyeRainForest/Vines/6961
Hopefully it will be a beautiful healthy place to live! Things are looking grim right now, but fortunately, there are more and more folks who are becoming aware of what is happening and a
?
This depends on the choices we, as a society, make right now. On our
current path, mass devastation seems most likely.
(Bob Ewing)
/RainForest/Canopy/5016
Not bright, the number of species will have decreased by thousands and many threatened species
are preserved in zoos, some have remained only in gene banks. With a bigger number of human
inhabitants and diminishing resources there will have been wars of water, oil and other
resources until 2050. There will be hardly any cars moving.
By 2050 the number of people on earth have stabilized with around 10 - 12 billion. But not with
enough food. Desperate starving people cut the last woods, though its has become a capital
crime.
People will migrate from the cold north and the dry south to moderate zones. It will be even
harder to trespass national frontiers. I fear that man under a surviving pressure will become
even more ruthless with nature than they are today.
(bolo)/RainForest/1650
if we donŠt change our ways of producing energy, demographic policies or harvesting goods for humans........the landscape will be awful, however,
if all the people interested in the conservation and sustainable use of natural resoures press the governments and large corporatives, the world will be in the right way.
(thevampyre) -
/RainForest/Canopy/1351
Everything will be much worse than now. I hope that there will be some huge environmental disaster so that people would wake up from their coma!
(Linda Degerth) -
/RainForest/Canopy/1414
I don't think the world will exist in the year 2050. Not if things continue the way they have been going. It's an impossibility,
given logic.
(Angela Fleury) -
/RainForest/2035
1. If humans do not change their ways sooner, I think the
world will look like a Waterworld. Lonely and lifeless, except for the few humans left who survive the global warming. 2. If humans
don't even get that far, then maybe a Road Warrior kind of world, with nuclear holocausts and people fighting for food and clean
water. I know that these are just movies, but they do convey a message about mankind. 3. Hopefully, mankind will turn their ways
around and the Earth will be a beautiful green planet once more with wildlife not as threatened, water sources not so depleted, and
more trees planted so the forests can regain their foothold on the Earth.
(Bastet) -
/RainForest/9926
We probably have done more environmental degradation in the last century than we have in all human history.
Our future is inevitable if our present way of thinking continues. I think, in 50 years, after the loss of so many
important plant and animal species, we will be desperately striving to maintain the balance we wrecked so much havoc on.
(ShaggyGrrrrl) -
/RainForest/4557
rather impoverished unless there are major changes by individuals and governments
( ? ) - /RainForest/Vines/2647
I really do not know. Sometimes I fear global warming, but also the fact that global temperature may drop due to gases in the atmosphere is scary. Bottom line is I do not know.
(anonymous) - ?
Futuristic looks usualy prove wrong... but here goes mine anyways. I see one of two things. Either a world that has stumbled down the same path that we are on now,
and has slowly torn it's self apart, or, a world that is still greatly suffering, but healing. This second dream will only occur with our
dedication.
(Adam Nott) -
/RainForest/Vines/6723
If things continue as is...the environment that we depend on for life will be devastated.
( ? ) - ?
It could either look great, if we stop all envrionmental destruction asap. Or it could be a world in which the human race has become
extinct at its own hand
(The Lorax) -
/RainForest/Vines/7105
America -- suburban sprawl will have reduced forestation to half of its already abysmal levels. The cities will be
in decay, and abandoned for living by all but the poorest. Africa -- ??? Tiger may well be extinct, rhino too.
(anonymous) - ?
Right now, I have a very grey vision of what the world will look like in the year 2050 due to the fact, that maybe people will soon
realize that we are harming the environment and turn things around but on this rate, I wuld say that we will be in a deep trouble in the future.
Daniel Millikin - ?
People would not be able to breathe the air, the water will be polluted, animals could not be consumed, especially fish, crops will
diminish in production because of soil deficiency, there will be no fish, people will get sick very easily and depend in more medicine than now,
the population will explode and the forests will not exist and the oxygen will be less.
Pablo Merel - ?
If we can eliminate the human race in the next ten years then I reckon it would
look quite cool - otherwise I hope there will still be patch of grass or a mountain top somewhere.
(arachne) - ?
It is easy to imagine the various negative scenarios. It is far harder to picture the total of the worlds people moving with similar mindsets that allow for very low per capita energy use and new ways of spending time. There is an inertia that threatens and denial in many forms that maintains that inertia.
dragnfly-?
I sincerely wish that it look the same as it did before the first Europeans set foot on this soil
(Dolphinus) - /RainForest/3965
I think the world would be a happy place where animals are free from extinction .(hopefully...)
(Elisha) -
/RainForest/Vines/6535
By the year 2050, I hope the world will have reversed itelf in caring for the environment, that it will be safer - the ozone layer will improve.
I also am hoping that jet fuels and gasoline motors will be replaced by more state of the art fuels.
(j. mcgoldrick) - ?
I HOPE STILL A LIVE ENVIRONMENT! If, the power that keeps me alive alouds me to live uptil that time. I will becoming
a senoir citizen at that date on our timeline. May we learn before we kill ever living thing on Earth.
I think it will be badly damaged, but it will survive. Nature will search it's own way to survive.
(Agustinus) -
/RainForest/3618
If people have not gotten a clue about humans being part of an ecosystem by then, I think we will have had a huge gaia-crash.
Sooner or later we will tip the balance on the whole thing.
(Patricia Pennell) -
/RainForest/6046
The "elite" will live in plush homes in the "best" locations which have been "stolen" by regulatory takings from the rightful owners.
The remainder of the population will be uneducated, dumbed-down and forced to live in crowded, crime-ridden tenements and used as slave
labor for the benefit of the "elite". The vast majority of the land area will be "rewilded". This is nearly a certainty if the people don't
wake up!!!!
( ? ) - ?
if the people still loking like in Indonesia, maybe the rainforest will finish
(Mr. Kosasih Kiki) - ?
If we don't change our ways it will be a very bleak place. No plants or
animals except in zoo's and botanical gardens.
(Jeff Schumacher) - ?
if it keeps up as it is today is will be barren...the streets will be full of trash and there will be no trees to produce oxygen.
(Laura Morrison/Big Red) -
/RainForest/5151
There are 2 visions. One, a stark and desolate place. Extreme heat and cold. No green and very few animals remaining.
The other a lush green spanse of new, healthy vegetation. A spread of the rainforests. More animals in view. A feeling of tranquility.
(Rev. Michele R. Nelson) - ?
More cities and less forest. A little uglier
(Aaron Dullinger)
I don't know. Hopefully we will have started cleaning up the world by then, but I have a feeling it will look bad.
(Jaala) -
/RainForest/2913
I hope the world will look no worse then it does today, but I know if we as humans
continue to do what we are to the enviroment, not only in deforestation, but in
polution and the killing of animals to extinction that it will not be as nice as
it is now, nor will our earth be as safe to live in as it is now ...
(guinny) -
/RainForest/3683
If the Government does not make the Environment the number on priority in the next 5 years. I see a desolate
world with an odery haze of pollution cascading everywhere. Water is tainted with toxins and the ocean is
onlonger blue. Tree are sparse and diseased. The end result of the destruction of the most beautiful creation,
so complex yet so simple, Earth.
(Myst) -
/RainForest/Vines/1009
If things continue on their current path I belive there will be a steady rise in disease and other infirmities due to air borne pollutants. I also believe there will be a marked
dwindling of major food sources from the effects of a dwindling food chain.
(Mark A. Salazar) - /?
Maybe that generation cannot see any trees higher than 2050 inches
if we at this generation dont want to do something.
( ? ) -
/RainForest/3418
If present population trends continue (and there is no reason to think they wont) we will hit the 10 billion mark around 2020, and the 20
billion mark around 2050. My own hunch is that some time well before 2050 the population of urban-industrial humans will crash. There are
many possible scenarios for how this might occur. My own best guess (and it is only a guess) is that global warming will lead to a period of
prolonged drought in the farm belt regions causing massive crop failure and wide spread famine. Then, under the pressure of starvation,
secondary disasters will occur in the form of disease, social upheaval, and warfare. As the cities of the world convulse in their death
throws, a period of "road warrior" like conditions will occur, but this will be a transitional phase. Ultimately I think that a small
minority of humans will manage to survive the die off. Those most likely to survive will be people who belong to a small group which has
managed before the crash to find and adapt to some niche
(Ed Huefe) -
/RainForest/7696
I'm truely not sure..but I'm hoping that by then..the world as a whole...will have come together as a community of people that not only care about theirselves..but the planet we
inhabit.
(Tom Kealy) -
/RainForest/Vines/4519
I think that the younger generations are relizing what we are doing
to our world. The problem now is cleaning up what we already
destroyed. I believe that it will look close to what it does today.
(anonymous)
One, or 6 rather, big metropolis areas. 1) It is possible that by the year 2050 we will have
cures for cancer, heart disease, and several other major diseases. 2) It is possible that we
will develop a cure for aging by the year 2075. If assumption number 1 does happen by 2050,
then everyone in their 20's, 30's or even perhaps 40's has a shot at an indefinite life-span,
since we could very easily be alive in the year 2075! 3) By the year 2100, the population in
space colonies could rival or even exceed that of Earth. This will be a natural consequence
to the increasing population.
(David Tompkins) - ?
I hope that gasoline-powered automobiles will be eradicated. I hope the roads and highways
will be torn up and replaced with the original plants and trees. My dream is that we will
travel in vehicles that are suspended several inches above the ground by powerful magnetic
strips laid under the ground, thereby decreasing air pollution and eliminating the need for
ugly roads. Large metropolises like New York City and LA and London will start building
skyscrapers in harmony with nature, and replacing streets and parking lots with fields and
trees. Bodies of water will no longer be polluted and they will be replaced to the state
they were in before the Industrial Revolution. The rain forests will no longer be threatened
and a solutio will be found for the hole in the ozone layer.
Endangered species will no longer be threatened.
(DeafChick) -
/RainForest/9412
Huge megalopolises with crowds of people streaming along all passageways, like ants marching
in lines extended residential communities linking urban centers along road corridors, with
few green spaces life in confined air conditioned/purified spaces (heat in the north, cooled
in the south) with mad dashes through the external environment (weather, bugs, pollution) to
the next controlled space large expanses of despoiled areas around the world which no longer
support human life (or much else) some expanses of "preserved" spaces, inaccessible to man,
thus "experienced" via video and other mass communication methods oceans and other water
bodies which are uninviting because of fear of bacteria and contaminants. (S.Fotopulos)
What do I know? NOTHING! I'd like to see a mutual respect for all life as one universal
consciousness, but I realize that may be asking a bit much. There are still knuckle
draggers around in what they deem authoritative positions. In other words, there are
monkeys with guns walking the planet! Scary! If hemp were legalized it would open the
floodgates for all kinds of alternative resources. But if it keeps up like this, we'll run
out of clean air. Within 7-8 yrs, if the deforestation of rain forsests continues at it's
current rate, there'll be no more trees! We've already lost more of the life-diversity
needed to maintain the gentle eco-structure of Earth thru rain forest decimation!
We have gone beyond the point of no return! The hole in the sky will grow and water will
be polluted. There will be more, as there are already all KINDS of, disease related to toxic
chemical waste in the air, water and earth. Examples are endometriosis, numerous anatomical
birth defects, AIDS, and so on...
(Luna7) - /?
unless we take action to make this a better place, i dont think there WILL
be a year 2050
(dum_dum) -
/RainForest/6452
The outcome of the world in the year 2050 will be one of two ways.
Hopefully the activism will have paid off and we will be living in an environmentally
protected world. If things don't change then a lot of our wildnerness will be extinct.
(Dawn) - /?
I think there are two possibilities. One in which animals of all
types are struggling to survive due to pollution of the earth. And, Two,
where the world is a very colorful precious place. My justification for
these is that we will either continue leading our lives as we are or travel
to other planets and be able to spread out the population and take care of
our environment.
(Jeff) -
/RainForest/Vines/1494
If we do our job today--it will look better and greener than
now. IF we continue to ignore--it will cease to exist by 2050.
(Jaquelyn) -
/RainForest/8412
I don't really know. If people realize the destruction the are causing perhaps we will still
have a small amount of our forests left but many species will have become extinct despite their efforts
or maybe people will continue living as they are now and destroy the whole thing. (anonymous)
I hope it will be greater and greener than it is today. The
possibility is there for our grasp. We can develop the technology to renew
our earth. If we don't each accept that responsibility, I cannot even
imagine the result. I was born in San Diego,CA when it was so small that
it wasn't even on the US map, the changes I have observed there are
astounding. I can see what poor planning and what good planning result in
right there.
(herblady) -
/RainForest/9767
If we continue the way we are doing now, I am glad that I will not be alive to see what
the world will look like by 2050. If we don't take drastic action I can
see a time when the only animals we will see will be in zoos or domestic
animals for pets and on farms.
(Ilze) -
RainForest/4226
I am an optimist. I think we will find ways to maintain, at the
very least, the current level of environmental quality. Online
communities, like this one, have the potential to compel people to
contribute to maintaining the quality of life... of the air, and the
water, and the atmosphere, that we all need to live... and hopefully, to
IMPROVE upon the current status.
(Deb Burkey) -
RainForest/7597
If we let things continue as they are, there will be little
left but a few weather ravaged islands.
(Hotwaterbottle) -
RainForest/7537
Probably very high tech, and (hopefully) more environmentally
friendly. With the coming of more awareness of the environmental
problems, solutions such as alternative fuel sources, and a larger
effort to reuse and recycle, the world might be a much prettier place (I
am the eternal optimist...I don't want to envision the opposite of
this...too scary).
(Gabriele Endress) -
RainForest/8710
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