#futurehistory ## 2025-2030: Early Developments - 2023: Is the hottest year ever recorded on Earth. - 2024: Mars College achieves 99.2% Solar Energy, despite historic flooding. - 2024: Is the hottest year ever recorded on Earth, again. - 2025: [[The Mars College Institute for Insurrectionary Ecology]] (MCIIE) launches its first experiment in autotrophic living at the Salton Sea, achieving 100% solar power for 3 consecutive months. - 2025: MCIIE Publishes the first edition of [[The Co-operators Manual]]. - 2026: MCIIE achieves 70% water recovery rate, build first greenhouses and eat first communal meals of certified homegrown "Martian" food for the first time, publishing [[The Panarchist Cookbook]]. - 2026: [[Great Pacific Heat Dome]] and ensuing blackouts spark the first [[Heat Strikes]] - 2027: Full Moon Heat Strikes spread worldwide. - 2028: The First Global Heat Strike Swarm occurs on June 21st. - 2028: The Radiolarian Collective forms, utilizing and adapting blueprints for the MCIIE and beginning designs for ocean-based autotrophic communities in the San Franscisco Bay. - 2029: MCIIE publishes comprehensive simulated ecosystem plans that consistently achieve stable autotrophy in Zones 3-5, and in climate scenarios up to 3C. - [[The Atchafalaya Levy Failure of 2029]] - Massive Flooding in the wake of Hurricane Isla overwhelms the Old River Control Structure, Atchafalaya River captures the Mississippi. - 2030: MCIIE attempts first year-round attempt at full autotrophy, based on the simulated projections. Despite very promising early results, a series of technical failures, followed by historic flooding and high winds, ultimate causes the camp to be dismantled just 4 months into the run. ## 2031-2035: Innovation and Necessity - 2031: MCIIE completes first full year, successfully growing 70% of their food, and reaching full self sufficiency for water and energy. - 2032: MCIIE narrowly misses qualifying for Autotrophy, reaching 100% food production by March, achieving and sustaining Autotrophy for 9 months. - 2032: MCIIE's narrow misses in 2031 and 2032 sparked a "Farms Race" as teams around the world raced to beat the MCIIE at their own game, becoming the first in their Energy Zones to claim the Auto-Trophy. - 2033: MCIIE Maintains and sustains practical autotrophy from December 21st 2032 to December 21st, 2033, and publishes full documentation and performance data for [[Peer-to-Peer Review]] - 2034: MCIIE's achievement of full Autotrophy is confirmed, and awarded the first Auto-Trophy ever in [[Energy Zone 5]] on June 21st, 2034. ## 2036-2040: Global Movement and Environmental Challenges - 2035: Radiolarian Collective in the North Pacific Gyre expands to a community of 100 residents. - 2035: The UN Global Sustainability Consortium formally funds the Auto-trophy, making grants and fellowships available to top-ranking teams. - 2036: First successful independent replications of MCIIE designs in Zones 5 and 6. - 2036: The Tyson Event causes extended global energy and communications blackouts during record heatwaves in the Northern Hemisphere, causing widespread disruption. - 2037: Local Heat Strike cells respond, using infrastructure and rapid response techniques developed and refined during the previous decade of [[The Full Moon Heat Strikes|Full Moon Heat Strikes]]. - 2038: Radiolarian Collective achieves first sustained Autotrophy at sea (Energy Zone 6). - 2039-2040: The South Asian Monsoon Failure leads to severe drought affecting over 1 billion people, putting global focus on water conservation and reclamation technologies. ## 2041-2045: Technological Breakthroughs and Environmental Turnaround - 2041: Radiolarian Collective grows to 1000 full-time residents; reports 90% reduction in Pacific Garbage Patch. - 2043: The Arctic Methane Release Event causes a spike in global temperatures, intensifying focus on carbon sequestration technologies. - 2044: Great Barrier Reef Restoration begins, with autotrophic seasteads and artificial reefs actively supporting marine ecosystems. ## 2046-2050: Societal Transformation - 2048: First permanent human settlement on Lunar Surface established, using adapted autotrophic systems. - 2050: Auto-trophies are awarded in all six Energy Zones for first time ever. ## 2051-2055: Global Ecological Recovery - 2051: First net-positive fusion reactor achieves sustained operation. - 2052: The Global Rewilding Initiative launches, protecting all remaining areas of pristine wilderness areas on every continent, and focusing human development on the active bioremediation of ecosystems damaged or degraded by previous human activity. - 2055: An estimated 55% of the global population lives in autotrophic-inspired communities, drastically reducing resource consumption and emissions. ## 2060s: The Autotrophic Transition - Early 2060s: Transition to fully autotrophic infrastructure completed in most regions. - 2063: Universal Autotrophic Dividend (UAD) achieved, a with 100% of global population gaining guaranteed access to basic resources from fully regenerative sources. - 2063 becomes Year Zero of the [[The New Calendar]] - Late 2060s: Significant advancements in autotrophic low-earth-orbit autotrophic systems and the establishment of [[Cloud Nine|Cloud One,]] the first tethered sky city, over the Pacific Ocean. ![[Pasted image 20241010163716.png]]