I want to applaud ABC News for the intention behind their new series Earth 2100. From the press release -
We need you to bring this story to life — to use your imagination to create short videos about what it would be like to live through the next century if we stay on our current path. Using predictions from top experts, we will feed you detailed briefings from the years 2015, 2050, 2070 and 2100 — and you will report back about the dangers that are unfolding before your eyes.
Your videos will be combined with the projections of top scientists, historians, and economists to form a powerful web–based narrative about the perils of our future. We will also select the most compelling reports to form the backbone of our two–hour primetime ABC News broadcast: Earth 2100, airing this fall.
Silicon Valley is creating tools and gadgets to reduce the impact of our choices, but American inventors have another path available. Make those impacts more apparent, and you can change our choices. This has cultural, spiritual and technological aspects.
Normally, I am suspicious of ratings-motivated blurring of fact and fiction. Too often, the temptation is to feed fear or fantasy. But this looks like a request of that under-utilized natural resource: our imagination.
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