Earth 2100: The Final Century of Civilization?

Earth 2100: The Final Century of Civilization?

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Interesting propaganda from ABC. Planet at Risk: Experts Warn Population Growth, Resource Depletion, Climate Change Could Bring Catastrophe in Next Century. It's an idea that most of us would rather not face - that within the next century, life as we know it could come to an end. Our civilization could crumble, leaving only traces of modern human existence behind.

It seems outlandish, extreme - even impossible. But according to cutting edge scientific research, it is a very real possibility. And unless we make drastic changes now, it could very well happen. Experts have a stark warning: that unless we change course, the perfect storm of population growth, dwindling resources and climate change has the potential to converge in the next century with catastrophic results.

In order to plan for the worst, we must anticipate it. In that spirit, guided by some of the world's experts, ABC News' "Earth 2100," hosted by Bob Woodruff, will journey through the next century and explore what might be our worst-case scenario. But no one can predict the future, so how do we address the possibilities that lie ahead? Our solution is Lucy, a fictional character devised by the producers at ABC to guide us through the twists and turns of what the next 100 years could look like. It is through her eyes and experiences that we can truly imagine the experts' worst-case scenario -- and be inspired to make changes for the better.

By 2015, there are expected to be hopeful signs. Experts predict alternative energy solutions that are currently in their infancy will gain momentum. Windmills may sprout up everywhere. Off the coast of Scotland, a sprawling wave farm will harvest renewable energy from the ocean. Vatican City will meet all of its energy needs with solar power. And the U.S. will produce cleaner, more fuel efficient vehicles in accordance with newly unveiled emissions guidelines.

But will it be enough? In 2015, global demand for fossil fuels could be massive and growing, but experts say oil will be harder to find and far more expensive to consume. If the cost of gasoline skyrockets, few may be able to afford to maintain the lifestyles to which we've grown accustomed. There may be a mass exodus from the suburbs, as driving gas-fueled cars becomes nearly impossible economically. But will that convince us to change our ways?

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  1. This is what science has degraded to, fairy tales.

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  2. Communists/leftists/marxists must invent continual crises to create a "purpose" for their existence, because heres a NEWS FLASH-NO ONE NEEDS OR WANTS THEM! THEY MUST DISRUPT, DESTROY AND TEAR DOWN, AND CREATE FEAR IN ORDER TO ACQUIRE POWER. THE FORCES OF GOOD NEED TO HUNT DOWN AND KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF THESE EVIL FVCKS.

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  3. Just another propaganda orgy for the cabal. The climate change hoax and the co-called vaccine hoax.
    Let's see what the fake alien invasion will be all about.
    Start studying flat earth people. The thing we have most of is ice!! It's all around us.
    Why would the military keep people from crossing over from the continents closest to it.
    Its all about control.
    Why were dinosaurs only discovered for the first time after Darwin came up with his theories. There were no dinosaurs. They have divided people between
    Most of our history is one long fake story. It is us against the central banks.
    Who forced fossil fuels, supermarkets and pharmaceuticals on us???

    Look up Rockefeller and Carnegie in pharmaceuticals. Rothchild's pretty much own the central banks. They own the city of London.
    The lot of them are mostly related, going back. JP Morgan, Rockefeller etc.

    The food industry has also been taken over by them. That's why people cannot sell the food they grow in their own countries to feed their own people.

    They have manipulated the global system to enable them to control food, water and energy.

    THINK!!!

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  4. The world was warmer 20 years ago than it is today. This vid pushes the fake and failed "menace" of CO2 and virtually ignores the real elephant in the living room: resource depletion.

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  5. this is stupidly dramatized

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  6. Hurricane Sandy, Coronavirus, Refugee Crises, yup we're already seeing a bunch of these things.

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  7. blah, blah blah, we can all see that and it's easy to criticize but noone ever seems to give any solutions, and i dont mean the bs like 'government should that and that...' no government is gonna save us, revolution must come from within

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  8. Well, with 10 years hindsight, WRONG.

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  9. Footnote: Fall 2016…… How completely, totally bizarre is this production, made about 7 years ago, not to mention all these comments? I've been watching the recent scientific videos of the ice under both poles melting, right now, something they are predicting in this film around 1:00.00, as occurring around year 2075 …… Opps!!! But hasn't Armageddon been rescheduled forward to 2020, just a heartbeat away? And my daughter will be having a baby in 2017….. Well, as Edwin above has stated, the fat is already in the fire, and to think that 10 billion human beings will stay sane enough to salvage anything of this orgy of madness is truly exaggerated optimism! I must copy all these comments to read through the next few years in my leisure….. I'm 79 now and hope to finish up here on earth soon…..

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  10. The scariest thing is that--- (the parents of the next three billion added earthlings soon to be born-- ) are totally clueless/careless about the above problems. All they want is more luxury living!

    We need more shock awareness as in this doco, and it must be compulsory viewing. MAYBE THIS DOCO helped 'Peak oil change to 'peak demand' in 2014, when people realized the potential seriousness of pollution from fossil fuels.

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  11. At 83, I have seen the TX coast become devoid of fish and crabs, rivers too polluted to swim in, air in cities so polluted that it is causing decline in health, the US populace consuming so many over prescribed medications that that in itself is causing health problems, the US becoming another imperialist nation wreaking and havoc on underdeveloped countries, pseudo wars that are highly profitable for US defense industries, the earth polluted from our chemical industries and oil and coal industries, our people becoming obese on foods devoid of nutritional value, waste sites as big as cities, oceans depleted of species of fish, the world population growing at an unsustainable rate, and on and on. Yet a tiny few of the world's best scientists are predicting a doomed earth in 100 years. Corporate leaders continuing to compete while ignoring that they themselves are driving the planet toward the next great extinction.

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  12. see in 2015 good things have happebed

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  13. if true im glad i wont be here.

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  14. The future of social development, civilisation.

    People always wanted to know that them expects. It is
    rather probable that at the initial stages of human communities in
    primitive-communal tribes, groups of people prophets, oracles aspiring by
    primitive forecasts were already allocated to provide to themselves a part of
    public foodstuff, places at the centre and other privileges. Simply so there
    was a process of division of labour … So it has turned out that by the XIX-th
    century end "the basic" contradiction between public character of
    work has been developed and is private in the capitalist way of consumption of
    its results. K.Marx, F.Engels, V.Lenin on the basis of this contradiction have
    developed the whole doctrine about class struggle. Matter is not in those tens
    thousand pages of the spoilt paper, and in millions human lives which have been
    put on a mythical altar of struggle for ostensibly light future of the
    proletariat, all people … I would not like, that still someone put forward
    ostensibly the basic contradictions. I have studied all works of classics of
    Marxism-Leninism, other philosophers in these subjects of social development
    and have developed the contradiction which is capable to begin a difficult way
    on creation of a society for people and people for a society, to the future
    development of a civilisation. It was necessary to allocate main principle of
    distributive relations and to "track" a way from the mechanism of
    manufacture before consumption. As a result in 1986 I for myself have
    formulated the contradiction between public character of work and individual
    way of consumption of its results which without exaggerations and it is
    possible to name the core. Considering has occupied not much few 28 years while
    I have not registered it as idea –

    Why I represent it to YOU? The simple answer - I have all preliminary
    approaches to the decision of many problems, but people should choose concrete
    ways of their decision and decide what directions to choose it … Especially to
    me 61 year, the invalid of 1st group and inflow of fresh thought should be … we
    Will begin with publications under the question decision recombination technologies. This a little
    unexpected for many the decision of a question of an individualization of
    manufacture of subjects of private use, but I in 1986 did not know about 3-D
    printers. Business stands up for small - instead of a paper to use durable,
    strong, non-polluting, a material repeated (micro-modular application). A
    problem of individual power-manufacture, of course, priority, but the mankind
    has not grown yet to its decision.

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  15. "But will it be enough? In 2015, global demand for fossil fuels could be massive and growing, but experts say oil will be harder to find and far more expensive to consume. If the cost of gasoline skyrockets, few may be able to afford to maintain the lifestyles to which we've grown accustomed. There may be a mass exodus from the suburbs, as driving gas-fueled cars becomes nearly impossible economically. But will that convince us to change our ways?"

    Who are the experts? The False Prophet cannot change its ways since the name means contradictory to the Truth. Many have been victimized by false prophesy and they should really start to THINK and mend their ways.

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  16. should this be under sci-fi movie ? entertaining, but its the governments way of brainwashing and freaking people out into staying under control.

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  17. Wasteful with our resources, time for a change in our life patterns, Plant many more trees and have less people born into the world ! Be like the Natives of America before the Europeans came !

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  18. If really looking for the solutions; Stop complaining on each government, religion and being an ignorant. As my aspect seems most of the people didn't teached to learn how to sustain mother nature and values on being a very responsible beings. Instead we'd been brain washed and enslavement by the every core of education and religious systems and lit the fire of greed in each innocent children and we goes on!

    So, people are unblameable there is no use to blame and criticize, if we does. Act of violence arose automatically as
    blaming on country causes war.
    blaming on religious causes conflict then to holly war in every society.
    even blaming on someone will causes fight and very displeasant moment etc.

    As how we step in we step out, step by step via raising awareness, being optimistic, bare tolerance, offer loving and understandingly spread the right message of nature of natural values and most important genuine human understanding.

    Since we are a social animals with mutual respect and
    together we can live better.
    together we can do better.
    so, lets be together and make some changes in action
    that how we like to make a healthy life.

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  19. Heres the documentary not allowed through yet...the right answer...Global warming is like Venus a natural reverting of a naturally incendiary planet...Earth + Venus are so alike they are called sister planets....Change EVERY light bulb it will still revert,,,there is ONLY ONE way to reverse it...GEOENGINEERING ...and ONLY ONE RIGHT way to geoengineer it....how do I know that? I ts written across earth in giant stone megalith sites, which read as simply as pictionary...Not the hieroglyphs the giant sites themselves...SEE my avatar? The pyramid was mirrored, I replaced the mirror reflectivity...you now SEE the original ideogram...smaller volcano like buildings and a super volcanic building coated in mirror VOLCANIC MIRROR...which is a real phenomena described by NASA as acid rain aerosols which in the instance of largest eruptions reach stratosphere surround earth + stay up years...Highly solar reflective this acid droplets shield reflects away incoming sun heat + radiation thus earths temps drop EVERY TIME....Super volcanoes cause volcanic winters by this process,,,,however Pinatubo PROVES 1991-1993 the volcanic mirror can in less density siimply cool earth...YOU SEE in desert a volcanic mirror ideogram which is only one phenomena + does ONE thing cools a planet.....in front of that ideogram is a sphinx which instructs ...get it right you live..... volcanic winter mortality rate is 90% of all life....global warming like Venus mortality rate is 100%.....GEOENGINEERING like Pinatubo + combined with the other megalith instructions written across earth all liife saved.....IF I am crazy so are you cause you SEE a volcanic mirror ideogram in that picture as does every person on earth despite color race religion etc.....2 facts solve it ...GOOGLE them both......NASA volcanic aerosols reflect sun and cool earth........Pyramid casestone mantle casing mirror .....do not get sidetracked by other opinions or other sciences...its simply these 2 facts....+ then you SEE it....i also have Easter Island + I can SHOW how pyramid was made with helium

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  20. I have no faith in humanity whatsoever. I see multiple unprecedented problems coming to a head in the near future. The question is when. The U.S. is internally sick, and will collapse under it's accumulated debt load. All it will take is a severe enough shock to the system, or that China stops buying the U.S.'s treasury bonds. With 17 trillion on the books, so little as one percent increase in the T-Bills interests will choke your government. And I place all of that blame on the U.S, people's sense of entitlement on the left, AND the right wing nut jobs who keeps fighting for the status quo.

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  21. only needed to watch 12mins to know this is propaganda bull

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  22. Watch "Zeitgeist: Addendum" and JOIN the Zeitgeist Movement!

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  23. One thing we do have is over population

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  24. Like master magicians the forces that be are letting this global catastrophe happen so as to reduce population to sustainable levels and then they will pull the rabbit out of the hat with amazing cure alls for the planet its getting real crazy thats for sure and then you have the armies who want war at all costs its just a mad mad world and its doomed!!!

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  25. Was watching a news video clip of an ignor@#t, ugl** black woman and her 15 kids subsisting on welfare and food stamps. She was furious that she didn't get more handouts:"Somebody gonna pay for dis!" she yelled. This is a good example of why the planet is doomed.

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