What is your vision for the future of our planet?

Answer 1

I made this essay a long time ago but i guess it would fit as answer to your question. it is entitled global evolution.

GLOBAL EVOLUTION

The world has spoken. Life will change big time in the upcoming years. Series of scientific phenomena will take place around the globe for the very first time in the modern period. This will be known as the Global Evolution. It is what most scientists fear about. This is a seen joint effect of the various developments and underdevelopments in technology, and the consequences of the existing environmental changes of science’s misapplication to humanity and life per se.

Technology
Currently, technology improves faster and better every time. The digital world, in which we now live in, manifests the future transformation we will have. The use of cellphones, notebooks, organizers, music players, personal and supercomputers, and other electronic devices brings us to a major change - the evolution of a lifetime. Most of these objects are wireless now. Data transfer, at the present, is instantly accessed through the Bluetooth and the infrared radiation. Since we use these electronic gadgets frequently, the radiations they give off progressively expose us. We know that radiations alter the biological composition of life. This is widely proven by the cancer and body malformation trend the earth belongs in. Some of the cancer patients had been exposed to strong waves cell sites and medical equipments, like the x-ray, had transmitted.

In a few centuries, I believe humanity will develop new corporeal features due to the body’s adaptation to the new and constantly changing technological environment. For example, the cellphone, which is often used by placing it near the ear, notifies the possibility of growing radio-receptive cells that will allow a person to read and transmit radio waves. In this case, humans will no longer use the phone. Think of the movies we watched wherein telepathy or mind reading is possible. Another, the utilization of computers in the society, particularly in engineering, business, research developments, security, medicine, agriculture, household and establishment maintenance, and even in terrorism, promotes changes on the overall human physique. On using computers, we primarily use our mind, hands, and eyes. Generally, we do less manual work now. Nevertheless, the evolution will result to a human that has a bigger brain, larger and keener eyes, more agile fingered-hands, and weak arms, legs, and body. The product suggests to call itself the new human specie – homo scientifica.

Environmental Changes
While technology improves, it also devastates the environment. The enormous emission of carbon dioxide by vehicles and factories warms the earth, and acidifies the ocean. The chlorofluorocarbon from refrigerators and aerosols thins the ozone layer and gives way for the ultraviolet rays to reach the surface. The massive disposal of garbage, used plastics particularly, pollutes the surroundings. These all result to one thing: eradication, or if not, evolution of the living organisms in the modern biosphere.

The polar ice caps from the Arctic and Antarctica had formed during the first Ice Age. They constitute 80% of the world’s fresh water. The gases like carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxide warm the globe by reflecting back to the surface the heat sent by the sun. This is called the greenhouse effect and it prevents the planet from reaching another Ice Age. However, the excess emission of these gases from vehicles and factories traps excess heat for earth to absorb. This phenomenon is known as the global warming. The warming of earth melts the polar ice caps that will raise the water levels high. Because of this, the land surface will shorten and so will the terrestrial habitat. Land creatures, animals especially, will crowd to the limited land area. Since animals are not compatible with all co-species, the endangered weaker ones will need to take another alternative to survive. That is, to move to the surrounding waters. This is an indication that some terrestrials will more likely adapt and eventually evolve into aquatic living organisms. It may show the reverse of the archaic times in which the webbed feet developed into the modern feet. Furthermore, this also shows the possibility of a human civilization in the sky or even in space.

As a natural mechanism, the ocean absorbs the excess carbon dioxide that is not absorbed by the plants. In reaction to water, carbon dioxide converts into carbonic acid, in which a large accumulation of this, consequently, acidifies the ocean. The acidification of the water forms upholds the greatest possibility of life alteration. Water is a key necessity to almost all life forms. Any major modification to its chemistry modifies the chemistry it supports as well. The plants make use of water in the production of glucose during photosynthesis. Without water, plants will not able to have the energy needed for survival. Gradually, the water turns acidic. At the same time, plants will sustain by enhancing a mutated system that enables the pH adjustment. Most feeble and small aquatic organisms will more likely die but species with strong endurance will slowly adapt to the change. They may either develop organs that will adjust the pH or that will directly consume the acids. Humans, on the same matter, will utilize technology and therefore will find ways on neutralizing water.

The exposure to the ultraviolet rays will not be totally prevented. I am not certain of its possible effects but I am sure that it will also alter life. This is true for organisms in the wild. Offspring reproduction, particularly, will not be successful due to the vulnerability of the mother to the alteration caused by the dangerous rays. Presently, the UV rays that pass through the large ozone hole found near Australia affect the people by upholding them with skin cancer and eye cataract. With the help of technology, future humans will not be greatly affected. However, the UV rays will develop new sicknesses, resembling cancer, which need the advancement of the current technology.

The wastes the earth throws will take and destroy the natural habitat of most animals, and of even humans. Millions of tons of garbage are thrown daily in the environment. For this reason, future relocation of the human civilization in the sky is further suggested. Moreover, bacteria that digest the garbage give off methane gas, a highly poisonous gas common in the planet Mercury. This is why we usually observe a fog-like gas over the dumpsites. The colossal produced-methane from these wastes will kill animals, and not to forget, most plant species too. In time, methane will be abundant in the sky like oxygen, and the color of earth’s atmosphere will slightly mimic that of Mercury’s. Methane, in liquid form, will replace water in smaller water bodies or will mix up with water traveling to the ocean.

All of these possible changes will end up into a world with full of different things; humans more advanced than with its future ancestors, creatures strange to the current, and an environment to be considered torment by most of us. It is inevitable, as we should say. The governments and non-government organizations of some countries, most belong to the Great-8, are on the look out for possible and efficient methods of prevention and treatment for this matter. The space explorations the United States and European countries now aid them on searching for a new planet to live in. The new discoveries in science, especially in medicine and engineering, bring about hope to the struggling earth species. What is left for us to do now is to enjoy and savor what we still have, and prepare ourselves for the coming more intriguing life-changing future.

Answer 2

The future of this planet is very speculative.
We can not look at in terms of good or bad.
Your question seems to imply the planets relationship to man.
Technological man who has occupied this planet for about 100 years,is probably one third to one quarter of his way through the niche that he has carved out for himself.
Man may be the greatest single influence on the environment that he inhabits.
On a planet with a life span of maybe 10 billion years the approx.350 years life span of technological man should have no far reaching influence on the planet.
The course of events on our planet may mimic and be mimiced by unknown numbers of other planets [like ours]through out the universe.
The launguage of DNA is probably a logical factor in the evolution of any planet that produces life.
But what about about the future of earth?
It could die out like mars or become a dynamic enviroment like Venus and go on for maybe billions of more years as an interesting evolving system.
But eventually the earth will become a victim of a dying and expanding star.
As the hydrogen and helium [That stokes the fusion reactor] becomes exhausted the sun will expand and darken and vaporize the inner planets.
The system will continue its process of dying until this finite universe ceases to exist.

Answer 3

And whose crackpot vision was THIS? 1.) Cold fusion has already been debunked. 2.) It's not in humanity's nature to be peaceful -- the faces will change, but the song remains the same. 3.) Most everything else is just pie-in-the-sky nonsense, like a particularly bad Larry Niven paperback...

Answer 4

I believe the human desire to affect change in nature has caused an unbalance in the planets ecosystem. I also believe nature is a self-balancing system and eventually the planet will cure itself. But only after nature rids itself of the root cause of this imbalance -humans.

Answer 5

There is 1 major problem and that is not the environment,it is the birth rate. If we don't get it under control we will need a war that could kill 3 billion people. What is the solution to this???

Answer 6

Probably like today. "Live like there is no tomorrow till there is none." Sad but this is the mind set. I see organized religion being our downfall. "wars"

Answer 7

Continue heating and cooling for clensin purposes..

Answer 8

ppl livin on mars and the moon

Answer 9

Were doomed