Will humanity extend into the far future? It's likely many of us think it should. The problem is that each of us, individually and collectively, act otherwise—we are destroying the environment and climate at every turn. Now a group of scientists is arguing that civilization needs to specifically and systematically study how our species can ensure its survival, even for millions of years, via a new interdisciplinary field they call "Future Dynamics." Their study is published in Habitable Planet.
"'Future Dynamics," they write, "would integrate geodynamics, climate science, ecology, economics, and social modeling to simulate possible futures over tens of thousands to millions of years. Rather than predicting exact outcomes, it would identify safe trajectories and tipping points to avoid."
Why? Because our intelligent, technological species may well be the only one in the galaxy.
I seriously doubt that.
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