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ExplainingTheFuture.com : About the Author
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About ExplainingTheFuture.com and Christopher Barnatt. ExplainingTheFuture.com provides information on future challenges, trends and technologies, both on this website and via its YouTube channel. The site is written and maintained solely by futurist Christopher Barnatt. Christopher Barnatt has been a professional futurist for over 20 years. He has published eleven books. And numerous articles, with over 200 media contributions. Alaric (now NCR Financial Services). D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership.
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ExplainingTheFuture.com : Resource Depletion
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You are in: Future Challenges. Sustained economic development is impossible within an effectively closed system like Planet Earth. It is therefore more than a little surprising how much attention today is being focused on climate change. Remains more than a little bizarre. In 2011 the United Nations Environment Programme. Coping most successfully with resource depletion will requires a broad range of strategies. These are likely to include more local living. And the death of economics. As well as the pro...
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ExplainingTheFuture.com by Christopher Barnatt
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Learn about climate change. Learn about low energy lifestyles. The death of economics. Learn about 3D printing. Learn about The Singularity. Seven Ways to Fix the World. The Next Big Thing. This page last updated 22 August 2016. Please visit our sister site at ExplainingComputers.com.
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ExplainingTheFuture.com : Climate Change
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You are in: Future Challenges. Climate change is widely believed to be occurring because the level of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere is increasing, so leading to an increased retention of heat from the Sun. As a consequence, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPPC) predicts that average global temperatures will rise by a minimum of 1.1 degrees centigrade and a maximum of 6.4 degrees centigrade by 2100. In 2014, the IPPC produced a highly detailed Synthesis Report.
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ExplainingTheFuture.com : Future Visions
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This page is a gallery for some of my visualizations of things to come. These images have been produced for my videos. Though most are also available at print resolution. If you would like to use one in a publication or another work, please contact me. Global Warming Solar Sails. This page last updated 30th January 2016. Please visit our sister site at ExplainingComputers.com.
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ExplainingTheFuture.com : Future Gazing as Future Shaping
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Future Gazing as Future Shaping. Choosing the Best Tomorrow. Challenges, Technologies, Trends and Mindsets. The content on this site is mainly categorized into challenges, trends, technologies and mindsets. Future challenges. Are those major inevitabilities with which we will all have to contend sometime in the future, even if the easiest thing today is to ignore them. In contrast, future trends. Also included on this site are an extensive range of videos. From the ExplainingTheFuture YouTube Channel.
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ExplainingTheFuture.com : Food Shortages
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You are in: Future Challenges. According to the United Nations World Food Programme. In the face of the "perfect storm" of climate change. Is also already leading to reduce yields of corn, rice and other staple foods around the globe. Rising climate change. In addition to Peak Oil. Declining Fish Stocks Supplies. Another downward pressure on future food supplies is declining fish stocks. Alarmingly, three quarters of fish stocks are already being fished at of beyond capacity, or are now having to be ...
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ExplainingTheFuture.com : Peak Water
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You are in: Future Challenges. With oceans covering over seventy percent of the planet, the idea that we may in the near future run out of water may seem ludicrous. However, "Peak Water" refers to a state of affairs in which our supply of fresh water is not replenished at the rate it is consumed. Another pressure on future fresh water supplies is climate change. Peak Water will therefore trigger a global industrial transformation. Not least major industries are likely to have to relocate to regions w...
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ExplainingTheFuture.com : Future Mindsets
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The Second Digital Revolution. The Five Facets of Reality. Crossing the Fourth Discontinuity. The Global Hardware Platform. Transhumanism represents the view that we should take a proactive role in upgrading the human species. In other words, "transhumanists" believe that a proactive stance ought to be taken in furthering human evolution. For more information, please see the transhumanism. For more information, please see the Singularity. The Second Digital Revolution. The Five Facets of Reality. The Fiv...
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ExplainingTheFuture.com : Challenging Reality
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Series that questions the certainties of the modern. World and examines and key challenges and opportunities of the. Future. The shows were broadcast by Edge Media TV. On UK Sky channel 200 from 18th April 2009 to 15th September 2010, with 101. Transmissions in total. For more information, to down individual transcripts, or. To watch the programmes online, just click on an episode below. To the Digital Age. The Power of One.
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