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Your Take On The Future of Earth
    #7756677 - 12/13/07 11:30 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

We all have our own ideas of dystopia so lets hear em.

I see a world of parking lot fields and skyscraper forests; a giant world of concrete and steel where trees seem more out of place and artificial than the mile high structures shadowing them; a world where inter-galactic travel is a possibility but only affordable to the rich of the rich while the common man sits in a jail cell called Earth, but with work hard, by feeding the machine, slaving in the factory, making it grow, just maybe you'll be able to escape. But no one ever does, for the minimum wage is too low and you die of black lung at the age of 30.


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So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.


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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: mikebart101]
    #7756749 - 12/13/07 11:47 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I see a world where we drive hybrid vehicles with biofuels, or possibly even hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.  We'll have buildings made from recycled materials that are insulated to the point that they don't need heating or air conditioning units.  Rather than having a small number of power plants providing electricity, most commercial buildings and many houses will generate their own power, which will be spread throughout the grid.  Thanks to people like me, governments will have tax policies based on land an natural resources rather than labor and capital, thus reducing sprawl and virtually eliminating poverty, for reasons first outlined by Henry George.  The world population will peak at 9 billion, well within what most experts estimate to be Earth's carrying capacity.  People still won't agree on whether or not global warming is man-made or not because greenhouse emissions will have already been greatly reduced in response to the oil crisis.  Seeing the poverty-eliminating effects of land value taxation in America, other countries will follow suit, eliminating world hunger as we know it.  With greater prosperity for everyone, religious extremism will lose favor, particularly in the Middle East, and we'll see a drastic reduction in terrorism.

Sorry to ruin your thread, but I'm an optimist.  :biggrin:


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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: mikebart101]
    #7757206 - 12/14/07 03:43 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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mikebart101 said:
We all have our own ideas of dystopia so lets hear em.

I see a world of parking lot fields and skyscraper forests; a giant world of concrete and steel where trees seem more out of place and artificial than the mile high structures shadowing them; a world where inter-galactic travel is a possibility but only affordable to the rich of the rich while the common man sits in a jail cell called Earth, but with work hard, by feeding the machine, slaving in the factory, making it grow, just maybe you'll be able to escape. But no one ever does, for the minimum wage is too low and you die of black lung at the age of 30.




we create OUR ENTIRE REALITY...


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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: Silversoul]
    #7757446 - 12/14/07 08:03 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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I see a world where we drive hybrid vehicles with biofuels, or possibly even hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.  We'll have buildings made from recycled materials that are insulated to the point that they don't need heating or air conditioning units.  Rather than having a small number of power plants providing electricity, most commercial buildings and many houses will generate their own power, which will be spread throughout the grid.  Thanks to people like me, governments will have tax policies based on land an natural resources rather than labor and capital, thus reducing sprawl and virtually eliminating poverty, for reasons first outlined by Henry George.  The world population will peak at 9 billion, well within what most experts estimate to be Earth's carrying capacity.  People still won't agree on whether or not global warming is man-made or not because greenhouse emissions will have already been greatly reduced in response to the oil crisis.  Seeing the poverty-eliminating effects of land value taxation in America, other countries will follow suit, eliminating world hunger as we know it.  With greater prosperity for everyone, religious extremism will lose favor, particularly in the Middle East, and we'll see a drastic reduction in terrorism.

Sorry to ruin your thread, but I'm an optimist.  :biggrin: 




:sunny:


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:bunny::bunnyhug:
All this time I've loved you
And never known your face
All this time I've missed you
And searched this human race
Here is true peace
Here my heart knows calm
Safe in your soul
Bathed in your sighs

:bunnyhug: :yinyang2:


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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: mikebart101]
    #7757453 - 12/14/07 08:13 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

The world that you imagine is the world that you create.


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"A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda


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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #7758066 - 12/14/07 11:51 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

The world can burn. I just want my house and farm on the mountain, along with a high powered telescopic rifle instead of a welcome mat.

Just thinking about a telescopic rifle, I'm thinking of the barrells you see on tanks, that slide back, the telescoping is a recoil buffer.

I mean I want a rifle with a telescopic sight. Then I can see people from really far away.

I hope other people live on nearby mountains, and we can walk to each other via bridges, they can grow chickens or goats, and I'll grow my crops, together we shall have all the fruits and vegetables one needs, and more cannabis than you can shake a birch at.


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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #7758090 - 12/14/07 11:55 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Visionary Tools said:
I'm Ted Nugent.




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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time
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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #7758097 - 12/14/07 11:55 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Huehuecoyotl said:
The world that you imagine is the world that you create.




This is only partially true in relation to your sets of belief. You cannot make the world go away because you imagine it being gone but you can decide what is good or bad about it.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: Jack Albertson]
    #7758102 - 12/14/07 11:56 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

ts727 said:
Quote:

Visionary Tools said:
I'm Ted Nugent.







:rofl2::rofl2:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: Icelander]
    #7759177 - 12/14/07 04:51 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

That one got me laughing too....    :grin:


>^;;^<


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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: Silversoul]
    #7761438 - 12/15/07 11:09 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

:thumbup:


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If I should die this very moment
I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
Wrapped in the warmth of you
Loving every breath of you

:heartpump: :bunnyhug: :yinyang:

:yinyang: :levitate: :earth: :levitate: :yinyang:


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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: fireworks_god]
    #7761466 - 12/15/07 11:20 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

As we become more interwoven as a society, we will become more aware of the nature of reality. The more we interact, the more perspective is exchanged, the more we begin to exist with a sense of the presence of the life around us, and the experience of being.

Transformation will be apparent at a quick enough pace that people will awaken. Individuals will be sovereign entities once more, free. :mushroom2:

We will become educated and intelligent, and seek to experience life to its fullest, enjoying every rich detail. We will explore and have fun. We will be responsible for ourselves and our environment in which we exist, and further the path of awareness and being. An infinity of lives in which we become more aware of existence and experience the path. To love. :heartpump: :mushroom2:


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If I should die this very moment
I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
Wrapped in the warmth of you
Loving every breath of you

:heartpump: :bunnyhug: :yinyang:

:yinyang: :levitate: :earth: :levitate: :yinyang:


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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: fireworks_god]
    #7761467 - 12/15/07 11:20 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Creation. :yesnod:


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If I should die this very moment
I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
Wrapped in the warmth of you
Loving every breath of you

:heartpump: :bunnyhug: :yinyang:

:yinyang: :levitate: :earth: :levitate: :yinyang:


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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: Icelander]
    #7761472 - 12/15/07 11:22 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Icelander said:
Quote:

Huehuecoyotl said:
The world that you imagine is the world that you create.




This is only partially true in relation to your sets of belief. You cannot make the world go away because you imagine it being gone but you can decide what is good or bad about it.




Have you ever truly imagined and believed it being gone? And sustained it? :smirk:


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:redpanda:
If I should die this very moment
I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
Wrapped in the warmth of you
Loving every breath of you

:heartpump: :bunnyhug: :yinyang:

:yinyang: :levitate: :earth: :levitate: :yinyang:


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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: fireworks_god]
    #7763284 - 12/15/07 08:51 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Soon, the U.S.A. will fall. Shortly thereafter, there will be a calamity that eliminates humans, and perhaps every other species as well.


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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: Boots]
    #7763346 - 12/15/07 09:01 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Your visions suck :wink:


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All this time I've loved you
And never known your face
All this time I've missed you
And searched this human race
Here is true peace
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Bathed in your sighs

:bunnyhug: :yinyang2:


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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: mikebart101]
    #7764084 - 12/15/07 11:33 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Humans require more space and resources to live than other animals. And so, if humans stay on Earth, humans will obviously burn themselves out.

Look to the desert, for the future of Earth.


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As the life of a candle,
my wick will burn out.
But, the fire of my mind
shall beam into infinite.



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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: psyka]
    #7764092 - 12/15/07 11:38 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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psyka said:
Humans require more space and resources to live than other animals. And so, if humans stay on Earth, humans will obviously burn themselves out.



Population growth is already slowing, and it will reach a peak at some point before leveling off. The current projection is for the population to peak at around 9 billion in the year 2050. However, these projections keep get smaller as time goes on(that 9 billion figure might already be dated), and it's within the range what most experts consider to be the carrying capacity of earth(though this is a complicated figure to estimate).


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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: Silversoul]
    #7764890 - 12/16/07 10:37 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

In 1950 there was only 2 Billion. In fifty past years that has more than doubled again to 7 Billion. Projections are only that. Reality is scarier.

At any rate the planet's entire arable structure is changing extremely rapidly so something's going to change soon, or it's going to be soilent green, for reals....


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Re: Your Take On The Future of Earth [Re: eve69]
    #7765136 - 12/16/07 11:41 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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eve69 said:
In 1950 there was only 2 Billion. In fifty past years that has more than doubled again to 7 Billion. Projections are only that. Reality is scarier.



These projections are based on reality, and the reason they've been shrinking over time is that population growth peaked in the 70's and has been declining ever since, often faster than originally predicted.

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At any rate the planet's entire arable structure is changing extremely rapidly so something's going to change soon, or it's going to be soilent green, for reals....



The fact of the matter is that there is plenty of arable land, but unfortunately much of it is kept out of use by land speculators, which is why a fair and effective form of land reform is needed.


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