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What Challenges Will You Meet

What Challenges Will You Meet. Global Population. How many people do you think there are currently on this planet?. Global Population. 6,000,000,000. Global Population. How many people do you think there are projected to be by 2050? (a scant 39 years from now). Global Population.

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What Challenges Will You Meet

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  1. What Challenges Will You Meet

  2. Global Population How many people do you think there are currently on this planet?

  3. Global Population 6,000,000,000

  4. Global Population How many people do you think there are projected to be by 2050? (a scant 39 years from now)

  5. Global Population ~9,000,000,000 Or 1.5X the current population

  6. Where Will You Be? • In 2050 you will be about 47 years old • Where will you be living? • Will you have children? If so they might very well be as old or older than you are now. • What occupation will you have? • Will you own a dog, a cat, or a fish/reptile? • Why am I asking these questions and telling you these things?

  7. Our Problems • The challenges facing our planet are our problems! They are not our parents’ problems. • If your parent is currently ~40, they will be ~80 in 2050. In other words no longer responsible. You and me We are the people who will be charged with solving the worlds problems.

  8. Global Challenges • Energy – world’s energy supply will need to approximately double. • Food – ditto for food • Water – How much clean, fresh water do you use on a daily basis. Multiply that by 9 billion • Bottom line is people!

  9. People Currently ~6 billion people on the planet At some point around 2050 we will be at ~9 billion people How do we provide energy, food and water for an additional 3 billion people?

  10. Energy Currently you could think of the world burning a 14 terawatt energy light bulb every second of every day How much energy we will need to be able to produce by 2050?

  11. Energy Projection Projected to need 16 trillion more watts per second by 2050 That means by 2050 we will need to be able to produce 30 trillion watts per second

  12. How do you think we should/could get there?

  13. Here is how the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry at MITthinks we should get there Daniel Nocera of MIT Lecture For more info on him go here http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/dgn/www/index.shtml

  14. One Problem: A many step solution Replacing carbon as a fuel source is a HUGE problem. Chemistry as well as other sciences are going to play a large parting in solving this problem.

  15. What about the other problems! In addition to the other problems I outlined above there are many others • Antibacterial/pathogen resistance • Air pollution • Poverty • Starvation • Oppression (in its many, many, many, forms) • Resource scarcity • War

  16. How will you CHOOSE to live your life?

  17. How will you CHOOSE to live your life?

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