Take A Look At The World That Awaits Us In 2050

Photoshopping The Future: Take A Look At The World That Awaits Us In 2050

British environmentalist Jonathan Porritt offers a photo-realistic vision of life on Earth in the year 2050. (Spoiler alert: the future does not exactly go smoothly.)

Jonathan Porritt can talk until he's blue in the face about concentrated solar power plants, advanced anaerobic digestion, and aquacycle technology. The British environmentalist has addressed all of that and more as founding director of Forum for the Future. But in his new book The World We Made (October, Phaidon Press), Porritt goes way beyond mere verbiage to offer a photo-realistic vision of life on Earth in the year 2050.
"The underlying philosophy for this book is simple," Porritt tells Co.Create. "I've been trying to do sustainable advocacy for four decades. Even when I'm lucky enough to make a hit with something intellectually, lots of people tell me, 'That's really interesting Jonathan but I still can't see what a sustainable world looks like.' I realized I can't do words any longer because words alone won't cut it. I've got to do words plus visuals."
The World We Made looks back, 37 years from now, on a fitful cavalcade of catastrophes and breakthroughs as seen through the eyes of fictitious professor Alex McHale. He describes how famine, cyber-terrorism, and riots gradually convinced politicians, entrepreneurs, and technologists to innovate their way toward a self-sustaining planet.
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