[pitchka]

It's weird how we seem to understand exponential growth of technology but have a hard time grasping the exponential build-up of excess greenhouse gases due to the exponential growth of human population and economy.

I wonder how these thousand years might look if currently there have been temperature difference of extremes by 20 degrees, with average already raised by 2.

For example, mass extinction of oceanic ecosystems is due to somewhere around 2050s. Whole oceans will get empty very quickly. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/314/5800/787

Collateral victim count of ~3 trillion yearly deaths of oceanic animals is a big contributor.

We'll see how the world will cope when main oxygen producers disappear.

[onetimePete]

Presuming, we don`t have some AI that bio-upgrades whole ecosystems via DNA-update. Your seahshell of 2050 might be made of carbonfibre. Still its a race..

[marvy]

Not by 2050. Maybe 2500.

[Tiquor]

It's even harder to believe that in the face of thousands of years of human progress and overcoming of the doomsday scenario of each decade and century that we still continue to fear tomorow.

[pitchka]

Well, it's good that the problem solvers of the world are not as optimistic and wish to solve the problems.

Otherwise we'd all be like "good, in a thousand years everything's going to be ok, 'cos science".