I'm afraid that the weight of evidence shows that, despite the good intentions of a few, the world is indeed doomed. Collectively we are in denial, and even those who are getting an inkling of an idea of how bad the future looks are trying to be optimistic, but the truth is we are most definitely doomed. Don't get me wrong, I don't expect the world to just end one day, unfortunately it will be much worse then that. What we are facing is a rapid decline over the next 40 to 50 years or so, regularly peppered with increasingly devastating disasters along the way, both natural and man-made, until total environmental collapse occurs, decimating all populations of plant and animal on the planet, including mankind. Some may survive, but we really cannot imagine what form that survival will take. We have seen many projected futures of a post-nuclear apocalyptic world, but the real apocalypse will be post 'environmental collapse', and it's likely to be much, much worse. The carrying capacity of the world will be reduced to a fraction of its current level, possibly wiping out 90% of life on the planet. Society as we know it will disintegrate totally, replaced with a far more tribal mode of life. It will be for all intents another dark age, but instead of having a world rich in diversity and resources to rebuild a brave new world, we will have a burnt-out shell of an environment that will permanently restrict what can be achieved in the future. That's if the environment survives sufficiently to even support higher forms of life, and we could very well find ourselves back to the primordial soup stage. [Loss of Biodiversity]
