Earth 2100
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In my life, I've seen
New York City under full quarantine.
The Midwest, overrun,
devastated by pests.
Plagues sweep across California.
And then what happened next was
something none of us saw coming.
to save our future,
to even have a future.
It's the year 2100 and I survived.
To change the future,
first you have to imagine it.
'Earth 2100"
starts now.
The idea that within this century,
perhaps in your lifetime,
our civilization could lie in ruins
seems unbelievable.
But according to some of
the world's leading minds,
that's not just a worst-case scenario,
it's a real possibility.
Good evening, I'm Bob Woodruff.
Over the next two hours,
we'll take you on a journey into a world
that could await us and our children.
And we've taken the liberty
of creating one more,
a fictional character we're calling Lucy,
who will be our guide through this century.
Her life story is not a prediction
about what will happen,
but what might happen.
This once glorious city,
whose lights at night could be seen for miles,
empty now.
It's towering skyscrapers,
once a testament to our ingenuity,
now stand as crumbling monuments
to our demise.
Maybe only artists can grasp what that
kind off future really holds for us.
It's perhaps in the area that we
think of today as science fiction,
but that could be a very real
future for the planet.
if New York is abandoned,
I can imagine some advanced creatures,
maybe humans, maybe extraterrestrials,
looking at New York and saying,
those ignorant people, how on Earth could
they have ever expected to survive?
I can ask myself what happened,
but where do I begin?
With the droughts,
the famines, the plague?
It began long before all that.
My story is everyone's story,
the story of the last century.
I was born June 2nd, 2009.
Civilization was at a crossroads.
We were in a race for our future.
Today, I say to you that the
challenges we face are real.
They are serious and they are many.
The temperature is
expected to keep going up.
Douglas County will
run out of drinking water.
They will not be met easily
or in a short span of time.
Sixth grader came down with
suspected swine flu on Wednesday.
Energy, climate, food,
population, economic pressures,
any one of these challenges might
be very serious in itself.
But because they're happening
all simultaneously,
it's going to be very difficult
for our governments to cope.
When I look at the next century,
I feel it's up for grabs.
- Raising sea levels...
- Catastrophic weather.
- Ten-year drought...
- it's scary.
These are things that are happening today.
The time for action is now.
The world had never
known such uncertainty.
We were used to having what we
wanted and doling what we wanted.
The analogy that I would draw is
someone looking at their bank account
and week after week, they're withdrawing
money and they're enjoying the good life.
If they would bother to read the statements,
they would see that the bank account
is dropping $900, $800, $700, $600.
And at that rate you know that
another six months of the good life
is not gonna be a good life anymore.
independent of the environment.
We've overused our renewable resources
in the belief that we could do that forever.
People are complaining about the
economic crisis we have right now.
You haven't seen nothing yet.
You know, if we continue down this
suicidal pathway that we're on,
where we basically turn living stuff into
dead stuff and call that economic growth,
this will look like the good old days.
Although the world I was born into was
running out of so much, water, oil, land,
a big house, green lawn,
more water than we knew what to do with.
My parents must have
known what was happening.
We had a compact car and recycled.
And it wasn't just us.
Smart, imaginative people everywhere
were working furiously on solutions.
Our government was pouring
money into alternative energy.
growing their own vegetable garden.
Windmills were sprouting up all over.
People were beginning to understand.
But the clock was running out, and
nature was always one step ahead.
Flowers are blooming earlier
and trees are leafing earlier.
Birds are coming back
from migration much earlier.
If you were to pull back from the Earth,
what you would see is
sort of a refugee movement, if you will.
And species are moving their ranges
farther north to get to cool,
from south to north, and from the
valleys up to the mountain tops.
Of course, as a child,
having nothing to compare it to.
I was a little girl
enchanted by my small world.
Until one summer, thousands, maybe millions,
of dragonflies showed up out of nowhere.
They were delicate and beautiful
and I put one in a jar.
My mother was puzzled
and looked them up.
They were supposed to be in Cuba,
not Miami.
It was not until much later that I realized
they were a sign of what was to come.
It's 2015, six short years from now,
and the best-laid plans are getting underway.
A wave farm off Scotland is
harnessing the ocean's energy.
Vatican City has gone totally solar.
And here in America, cars are
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