What Will The Earth Look Like In 5 Million Years?

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by Henry Mulder3 views·Updated Sep 14, 2023
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  1. What will the earth look like in 5 million years?
  2. Our earth is amazing and constantly evolving.
  3. Over the past 4.6 billion years, the earth has changed temperatures,
  4. landscapes and plants and animals that inhabit it.
  5. However, our earth specifically,
  6. our climate has never changed faster than it has over the past couple 100 years.
  7. We continue with this level of consumption and damage caused to our planet.
  8. It could detrimentally affect how our earth looks in the future.
  9. Within this slideshow, I explore the causes of our changing earth
  10. along with how it could potentially look 5 million years from now.
  11. Prediction.
  12. I predict that in the next 5 million years,
  13. our climate will continue to heat which will lead to
  14. higher water levels more frequent and disastrous nas natural disasters
  15. and a loss of many lives and biodiversity.
  16. It's hard to fully predict what will happen,
  17. especially with all the new science and technology
  18. that will be discovered along with the recent increase in conservation efforts.
  19. But based on my research and current trends involving the continued increase of CO2
  20. in our atmosphere.
  21. My prediction is a very real possibility
  22. population, our population is growing at an exponential rate.
  23. It's predicted that we could hit 9.7 billion people.
  24. Nearly 2 billion more than we have now by 2050
  25. then 10.4 billion by the 20 eighties.
  26. Although just like all living things, there is a carrying capacity.
  27. However, more people mean more housing, more food, more resources in general,
  28. which leads to a large amount of carbon emissions.
  29. And on average, each person releases 4.6 tons of carbon dioxide.
  30. That's the equivalent of going from New York to Singapore four times.
  31. This releases a huge amount of CO2
  32. which speeds up greenhouse gasses and increases the earth's temperature
  33. heating. Earth
  34. like stated in the previous slide,
  35. carbon dioxide and greenhouse gasses are the main cause for global warming.
  36. Our CO2 usage has been constantly increasing
  37. since the forties,
  38. our emissions went from 4.85 billion worldwide to 37.49 billion.
  39. This is causing the earth to heat and break records for hottest days.
  40. In fact, the earth is expected to rise by 2.7
  41. °F by the year 2100.
  42. Although that might not seem like a lot,
  43. these couple degrees can totally shift the earth's
  44. climate leading to changes in loss and biodiversity,
  45. abnormal weather patterns and increased floods and droughts.
  46. If the increase in heat were to continue in the next 5 million years,
  47. it can cause certain places to become uninhabitable
  48. due to constant dangerous weather and high heat
  49. rising waters
  50. beyond the earth looking different because it's too hot.
  51. Some places might not be livable because they will be underwater
  52. right now.
  53. Water levels are rising 0.14 inches a year already,
  54. a big jump from 0.06 inches 20 years ago.
  55. But now it is predicted that water levels will be rising by at least a foot
  56. if not 16 to 25 inches by 2100 displacing 25 million people.
  57. This will lead to the disappearance of many islands and coastal cities
  58. and all this is only around 75 years from now.
  59. Imagine what could happen in the next 5 million years.
  60. If this were the case, 5 million years from now,
  61. more people but less land will cause people to live in more compact spaces,
  62. causing pollution to worsen in those areas,
  63. erosion, sedimentation and weathering.
  64. Our topography is constantly changing and comes as a result of erosion,
  65. weathering and sedimentation.
  66. Although nothing dras drastic will come from these
  67. three things over the next 5 million years.
  68. They have shaped the wind and will continue to shape it.
  69. However,
  70. excess erosion like deforestation and construction can lead to poor soil and
  71. damage ecosystems which have kept up can cause detrimental effects to species,
  72. crucial to the balance of the ecosystem.
  73. Severe weather,
  74. I touched on it slightly in the other slides.
  75. But one thing that has caused and will
  76. continue to change our earth is severe weather.
  77. Our current climate is leading to record droughts, wildfires,
  78. intense winter storms, torrential rain and flooding and hurricanes wildfires,
  79. for example, are being caused by intense heat.
  80. California experienced their most destructive and deadliest wildfire
  81. in 2018.
  82. And then there's Maui leading to Hawaii experience their worst wildfire. Ever
  83. warmer waters are leading to more intense and deadly hurricanes,
  84. devastating families and the wildlife that habit those areas.
  85. Although winters are becoming shorter,
  86. winter storms seem to be getting worse.
  87. 2021 in Texas is a great example where they received an unprecedented
  88. snowstorm where over 100 people died and millions of damage was caused.
  89. Keeping up with this trend will cause constant
  90. life threatening natural disasters in the future.
  91. Overall, it's hard to know what the future holds.
  92. Looking at current trends and the forces that shape our earth.
  93. The outlook is not so good
  94. and we're excited. Thank you.