Q How well will humans be doing 5000 years from now? Give a scenario of life in the 70th Century on the continent of North America. From Sam the Student Given the current state of climate change data we could safely say that things are bleak for the Homo sapiens species. However, I will try to paint a more rosy picture. First thing we have to understand is that humans have always been on the brink of extinction. Anthropologists argue that the Homo habilis species (early Homo) may have been on the edge of extinction with not more than 100,000 individuals left in existence as they battled for resources with the more successful Australopithecus and Paranthropus species. But something happened, they invented stone tools - the Oldowan tool kit, and then fire was controlled and the rest is history as they say. Don't you think that modern humans with our big brains will figure this out? Check out the new studies focusing on carbon sequestration, the idea is that we can put back the carbon into the ground that we have so diligently removed to burn in our combustible engines. If we can get plants and species like algae to form in great numbers and then bury them - perhaps back into the ocean - then we can get that carbon out of the air and reverse this warming trend. I think we can do it! The key is harnessing renewable energy like solar and wind to and to stop burning carbon into the atmosphere. I think we can do it! So in 5000 years we will have conquered this issue and be onto the next thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration (Links to an external site.) What is Carbon Sequestration? (Links to an external site.) Link (Links to an external site.) Loading media... Minimize embedded content