Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’

YOU’VE JUST EXPLORED THREE POSSIBLE versions of the year 2033: Trash becomes illegal, virtually overnight—and garbage removal as we know it is officially over. The richest countries on earth embark on a ten-year project to carefully, thoughtfully, and equitably move one billion people across borders to climate-safer homes. A global vote approves an

We can expect a steady rise in extreme weather events in the coming decades, potentially causing countless lost lives and significant financial losses.

Climate catastrophe is coming. We know this. What we don’t know is how bad it will be. In the best case scenario, an unprecedented global Green New Deal rapidly transitions the world economy off of carbon, holding global temperature rise under 3°C.61 This causes large-scale polar ice melt, 12 inches of sea level rise by 2050,62 and major habitat di

On top of nuclear war, in the coming decades humankind will face a new existential threat that hardly registered on political radars in 1964: ecological collapse. Humans are destabilizing the global biosphere on multiple fronts. We are taking more and more resources out of the environment while pumping back into it enormous quantities of waste and

How do we quickly help hundreds of millions of people move somewhere they can be happier and healthier? Which places will have the safest climates? How can we make room there for all of

It is only a matter of time before climate change becomes the greatest cause of refugee flows.