Final Essay #2

Matthew Tasker

Sam Mudd

English 151

March 17 2011

The Future

Thinking about the future is a fun concept because no one can or ever will know exactly what the future will be like. Before the new millennium everyone thought that by the year 2000 there would be flying cars and spaceships flying all around the sky. Obviously that was not the case. In fact today’s society is nothing like what people thought it was going to be. People envisioned a society that was sustainable and envisioned a way of living sustainably. When someone asks somebody else to envision the future and asks them what they see everybody else’s answers are going to be completely different from anybody else’s. If someone were to ask me what the future was going to look like it would not take me long to figure how I would answer them.

Because of today’s society and everyone is wanting to live a better and healthier life someone who was asked what they thought about the future might be something like a society where we are completely sustainable and the Earth is sustainable. We as a society are trying to rush towards a society of complete sustainability, but is that even possible. My idea of our future is something that is the complete opposite of what we as a society are striving for.

We as people feel that we can change our environment and make everything better like the way it used to be. People think that if they change their ways of living that the Earth will go back to normal and everything will be ok. Yes, I do agree that we as people environmentally contributed to what the world is like nowadays but I feel like we are not the sole reason as to why it is how it is. In my envision of the future society will no longer exist and world order will be a thing of the past. We will one day run out of the fossil fuels that we rely on to do everything for us. Everyone always says it but I do not think that anyone actually realizes it. In my future we will have to find another form of reuseable energy because what we use now will one day not exist. Society thinks that if they recycle a can or pick up a piece of trash that it is actually making a difference. I’m not saying that it is a bad thing to do but what I am saying is that doing that will not save us from the devastating future that we are headed towards.

In my future we as a society in America will eventually have enough with our government and the people will stand up to all the deceit and corruption. It will be a revolution. What will happen and what will come of the revolution I am not able to say at the moment, but there will be a revolution because the people will eventually have enough and stand up and fight about it. With all the rights that we have we are actually losing them all of the time. The people will finally realize it and stand up and fight about it. As far as the environment is concerned, I think that we will use up all that we need to survive and because of that we will need to find a better and easier way of living. People feel that we contribute to all the devastating natural disasters that occur but to me all of what is going on in the environment is just one big cycle. People need to realize that we take advantage of living on this Earth because we feel that we are the most dominant. What we do not realize is that the Earth can get rid of us if it ever wanted to. We have no control as to what the environment does. The environment changes. It always has and it always will. People do not realize that about every thousand years or so that the Earth has gone through some sort of ice age. We just so happen to be living here when the Earth has decided that it wants to change how it has been.

In my future I envision a world where the environment showed us who was boss and because of it our way of living will be completely different. I do not want to sound like I am portraying a movie where the environment goes haywire and kills everyone but the environment is changing and there really is not too much we can do about it.