What Will Happen in the Next One Billion Years

The only hope will be to escape to other planets?

Sal

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An amalgam of ice and fire| Photo Credits: Dreamstime.com

The recent Covid crisis has made one thing extremely clear: the state of human civilization is fickle and fragile. The world is faced with a pandemic, climatic disaster, economic downturn, and an array of other problems.

Technological progress in vaccine development may have helped us out of the current crisis, but will we be able to survive through the onslaught of disasters that await us far into the future?

Today, humanity may recuperate, but hundreds of generations later, will we continue to pave our way out of the trials and tribulations that nature thrusts onto us? If we travel a billion years into the future, will an advanced human civilization greet us, or will we be faced with a bleak dystopian wasteland?

An Uninhabitable Earth: Ice and Fire Will Take Over

A mere 10,000 years into our collective future, the natural structures that adorn the Earth will begin to change rapidly. Some suggest that the Earth could largely be covered in ice, whereas others believe that the Earth will be filled with giant volcanoes that spew lava akin to a dragon that breathes hellfire.

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