Here's what could happen to Earth over the next 500 years if we ignore climate change
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Hey there! Nice to meet you. I'm from the future.
I live in the 26th century, which is deep in the Anthropocene epoch - a time when people are officially the greatest driver of climate change on Earth, and have been for awhile.
Things really seemed to pick up steam about 500 years earlier, after a US president backed out of an international agreement to dramatically curb carbon emissions.
It's a dubious honor if you could see the planet from five centuries later. These are the highlights - if you can call them that.
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This is an updated version of a post by Sarah Kramer.
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