I have always loved the dystopian genre. I think what the author writes reflects how they view our world and what they think will come of it. Books like these have always captivated me as they transport my imagination into a potential version of the world I see today. This month I read Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials and it led me to question how I believe the world will change in the future.
Personally, I believe that unless the majority/ the entire human race changes our way of living we are going to destroy our earth. With that being said I also believe that our earth is on an undefined time limit, meaning that sooner or later our earth will end/ it won't exist anymore whether that is due to climate change and pollution or some other unidentified threat. In the maze runner there was a disease outbreak which eventually led to an apocalypse like world where there was a dictatorship and a rebellion. This view of how our world could unfold made me think about how human actions specifically will have an impact on humans.
When I think about humanity I think about innovation. As humans we are constantly evolving and thinking of new things to create, this can be a good thing and a bad thing. In many ways human inventions have cushioned our lives and made it easier to survive. For example, agriculture allows us to purchase our food rather than hunt and forage for it. This makes our lives easier and less stressful, but farming is also a large contributor to pollution and freshwater usage. Another example is transportation, cars, buses, and planes make it a lot easier for humans to travel and pass information but again these things also contribute to pollution which in turn takes more time off our earth's life. Human innovation can be and is amazing, but I can’t help but wonder if it will be our downfall or if it will be what saves us. So, what do you guys think the future will look like for humans?
- Nyla
Whether or not it destroys us I think that innovation is going to happen anyway maybe just because someone wants to see if it works. The Maze Runner trilogy specifically shows a possibility where innovation destroys us which is all I can say without spoiling the ending of the third book, and the idea that we'll destroy ourselves does seem very common in dystopias. I'm not sure which way it will go but it's probably better to guide innovation that just tell people not to do it and wait for someone to do it anyway.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that at some point civilization on Earth will end to various factors. I'm not sure if humans will be able to survive anywhere else. Right now, the technology to survive in space is very distant, and it seems impossible for us to escape the heat death of the universe. Perhaps innovations will allow us to solve these problems in the future or maybe some things are too big for us to change.
ReplyDeleteCrazy to think that human innovations almost always have more negative outcomes than positive. I think this is a pretty huge problem with humanity: we don't think ahead. Especially in capitalist society where people invent things on impulse just for convenience or money. I have never read Maze Runner but it sounds like the kind of book I'd like. Dystopian futures have always captivated me in their all-too-realness. The human race will die out eventually, how soon that will be and how it will come about are questions of their own. Moving to Mars doesn't seem close enough to save us and climate change is a very unfortunate doom for humans. But, with humans gone, i am confident Earth and life will bounce back which is promising for a potential future race of intelligent beings.
ReplyDeleteCrazy to think that human innovations almost always have more negative outcomes than positive. I think this is a pretty huge problem with humanity: we don't think ahead. Especially in capitalist society where people invent things on impulse just for convenience or money. I have never read Maze Runner but it sounds like the kind of book I'd like. Dystopian futures have always captivated me in their all-too-realness. The human race will die out eventually, how soon that will be and how it will come about are questions of their own. Moving to Mars doesn't seem close enough to save us and climate change is a very unfortunate doom for humans. But, with humans gone, i am confident Earth and life will bounce back which is promising for a potential future race of intelligent beings.
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