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Opening the future

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How will our choices shape the future? That's a question researchers are keen to answer, and with a new approach to how the climate community develops scenarios, they are coming that bit closer to answering it.

By 2100, science will boom, and with widespread birth control — and a resurgence of puritan morals — the population will be kept at a sustainable level, about two billion. “Industrial enterprises that formerly befouled the world with smoke, refuse and cinder heaps” will be “cleaner in their habits than a well-trained cat.” So H. G. Wells imagined in his 1933 novel, The Shape of Things to Come.

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