Earth is a dynamic and changing planet. Although our home may seem like a safe and comfortable haven, the fragile dynamics that enable life as we know it can be easily disrupted. In fact, our planet was not always a blue and green haven. Earth has a violent past of rivers of lava and molten rock, desolate wastelands of ice, eternal deserts, and endless oceans. The future of Earth promises to be just as changeable, and life will have to adapt or perish.
In the short time that humanity has thrived on Earth, industrial processes have left a profound mark. Global warming is a phenomenon that has been accelerated and accentuated by humans in the last two hundred years, and that scientists have been warning since the middle of the last century. Today, we know much better than ever how to deal with climate change that could throw the balance of the habitability of our planet out of balance, but even so there are processes that it is too late to reverse.
The two most repeated words in recent years by climate change experts are ‘adaptation’ and ‘mitigation’ : the Earth is already on its way to undergo transformations that, although slight, will have enormous consequences for life on Earth: species disappearance, entire cities could be swallowed up by rising sea levels; Weather events such as droughts or hurricanes could ruin crops, endangering the survival of large human populations; Millions of climate refugees could trigger the largest humanitarian crises in history …
By now, scientific teams around the world have already made their predictions for the next 30 years; and some dare forecasting the future until the end of the century. Most of the transformations that you are going to read by scrolling through this gallery could be stopped if we move to a scenario of low polluting emissions, renouncing plastics, respecting ecosystems and opting for renewable energy sources.
What will Earth be like in 2050? Let’s start the review of 15 transformations that the planet Earth will experience by the year 2050 , according to science.
