Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Most Likely Dystopian

In today's modern society, many types of dystopia are possible in the future. The government could take control and become a totalitarianism all in the name of 'national security', criminals could become even more violent, requiring more extreme measures from the penal system and police forces in an attempt to curb the violence in the streets and prison. But perhaps the most likely scenario is a dramatic environmental event that causes mass destruction and chaos. For example, drastic climate change could cause the ice caps to melt, causing the sea level to rise, and coastlines to flood. While this may not sound too bad, it has the potential to cause massive power outages, destruction of thousands of homes, a dwindling food supply, and even a nuclear power plant failure and leakage of nuclear material. My guess is that the government would set up refugee camps for all the families displaced by flooding, but eventually the food supply would run out and all families would be forced to find alternate sources of food, supplies, shelter, and water. And 'alternate sources' could mean stores, it could mean farms, or the most likely scenario, is that it means other people's homes. And so, with invasion of homes, massive flooding, and other catastrophes, an environmental dytstopia is the most likely dystopian scenario for the United States to encounter.

5 comments:

  1. I think you and Brooke are right with the environmental dystopia. With there being a randomness to the patterns of the natural world, there is much more chance of destruction from an uncontrollable source than something political that we can prevent, which makes it all the more terrifying.

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  2. Anything is possible in today's world. Like everyone else I think some sort of environmental disaster is likely what will spark the fire. Everything else will just fall into place after that. It becomes a slippery slope.

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  3. Isn't it amazing though how many little things could cause a dystopian crisis? Whether it's government induced or brought on by a natural phenomenon, its overwhelming to think how many things could plunge the world into chaos. Debates over a single government policy could cause the world to go up in flames.

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  4. I enjoy how you and Shahrum both believe that the most probably way of a dystopian world to be created is through natural phenomena. Before taking this class I would have argued with believing that it would be a manmade disaster but the way the future is looking environmental disaster may be the way we go out. With global warming taking place and not enough resource with the increase of birthing overtaking deaths it may look that environmentally we don’t have enough but hopefully we can change that before we end up like our books.

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  5. Life As We Knew It is a dramatic scenario in which the environment goes whack. This may not happen to us, but something of a lesser caliber is definitely possible in the future. Global warming is a more gradual process but may leave us rationing for resources like Miranda and her family.

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