Earth 2100

Earth 2100 is a television program that was presented by the American Broadcasting Company ABC network on June2, 2009 and was aired on the History channel in January 2010 and was shown through 2010. Hosted by ABC journalist Bob Woodruff, the twohour special explored what a worstcase future might look like if humans do not take action on current or impending problems that could threaten civilization. The problems addressed in the program include current climate change, overpopulation, and misuse of energy resources.

Lucy is born on June 2, 2009 changed to January 1, 2009 in subsequent airings, in the suburbs of Miami and is still alive in the year 2100. In 2015, negotiations on climate change action breaks down between the West and IndiaChina as the former is unwilling to transfer clean technology to the latter, while Lucys family moves out of the suburbs and into an apartment in Miami after chronic gas shortages. A few months later a powerful hurricane named Linda hits and levels much of Miami, killing thousands of people. She and her parents move to San Diego. She becomes an EMT and meets her husband, Josh, an engineer, during a protest against high water prices of California desalinated seawater in 2030 Las Vegas had run dry.In 2050, they and their nineteen year old daughter Molly move to New York City by car, passing desperate Texans begging for rides north, which is refused by the trio. One pulls a gun on Molly, but others in the cartruck convoy point automatic weapons on the desperate man, who is forced to back off. While the others in the convoy make it to Canada, New York City is a marvel of clean power, clean transit, and community gardening. Josh sets to work building a flood barrier to hold back the ocean, but the CO2 warming unleashes trapped methane in the Arctic, which causes even faster, nonlinear warming. ........

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