The Future, (Issue 37)

They say the earth is going to be a different place to live at about a couple of million years – a place where there's gonna be flying cars, floating houses and that it all will be constructed with technology. But if you think closer, you understand how stupid it would be to manufacture several millions of flying cars that probably are going to cause a lot of fatal accidents in the air, then I don't think the world is going to look very different from now – besides more fuel-efficient cars or that we have changed to only use it so called ”electric automobile”.

However you can look at the future at many different ways, both realistic and unrealistic.If I would be unrealistic I would like to think the earth would be a paradise with colourful plants and rain forrests, tame animals and a rainbow coloured sky in the same time as the sun is still shining. And if the future would end up badly I think the whole population of the world are going to be slaves under the mighty hattifnatters (some electric being from the storytale of the Moomin) or we are going to be eaten up by a mixture of giant mice and crocodiles. But if I'm going to be realistic, with the global warming and all of the climate changes in mind, I think the earth is going under in about some thousands or millions of years. Maybe the intire ozon layer is disappearing so we all are going to get striked by skin cancer, or the ice on Antarctica and Greenland is melting so the sea level is sinking all the land we are standing on. Maybe all human beings are dying because of thirst and hunger when there's nothing left to cultivate, or maybe it'll get so warm that the insects are forced to move and because of that the humans and animals are getting infected by some terrible virus.

In spite of all the science researches, I think we're never going to understand what's happening and what's going to happen with our earth, even if it's the very human kind who's causing and are going to cause all of the coming horrible happenings.

/Johanna Jonsson