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Issue 198
“Could humans venture beyond Earth and settle in space by the year 2125?”
© Alamy
Most people would agree that humans have a powerful influence on both our environment and the global climate, and that it’s mostly a negative one. In the last decade, we’ve been inundated with so many warnings and updated predictions of what our planet might be like for our children and grandchildren if certain temperature thresholds are exceeded, that it’s hard to imagine what the future holds for the human race. We’ve crunched a lot of data from climate scientists and environmentalists to bring you a picture of what the world could look like in 2125. It’s not an especially pretty picture, but it’s not necessarily our fate if we can change our habits and the way we live as a species. Enjoy the issue!