THE WORLD IN 500 YEARS

The Great Myth of the Twenty-first Century

In the twenty-first century if we know only one thing about the Greeks of old it will almost certainly be something of ancient Greek mythology. But not everything Greek was mythical. The size and shape of the Earth, to within an accuracy of five per cent, was proposed by Greeks 2,400 years ago, and supported by such learned men as Ptolemy and Aristotle.

Peter Blakeborough in a
Boeing simulator

But many people continued to believe that the Earth was flat. Early sailors feared that if they strayed too far from their home shores they were in danger of falling over the edge. With the approach of the Space Age one Samuel Shenton founded the Flat Earth Society in 1956. An offshoot of the society currently claims on a website that it has existed since 1547.

When the first satellite images taken from space showed the Earth as a sphere the Society responded with, ‘It’s easy to see how a photograph like that could fool the untrained eye.’

Fortunately, the flat-earthers were not the brightest stars in the sky and in 2012 they have only a few dozen members world-wide and presumably all on the top-side because they don’t believe it would be possible to get a grip on the down-under side.

However, in the early twenty-first century a better organised and more influential band of hoaxers are holding the world to ransom. To understand what they are doing let us undertake a five hundred year time-travel journey into the future.

It is the year 2512. People can live their whole lives in single buildings; work (five to ten hours a week), enjoy leisure time, socializing, shopping, eating and sleeping. A milestone is about to be reached. The world average number of occupants per building has just reached 9,900 and by 2525 it will reach 10,000 people per building.

The majority of people leave their buildings only to take part in some outdoor sporting activities, visit the seaside or the vast parks in the countryside. Everyone regularly takes a few minutes to travel to another country in the weightless comfort of an inverted-orbit space-liner powered by pollution-free, recyclable, chemical-reaction fuel.

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It is several hundred years since most people worried about over-population. That was a myth of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The current generation is the healthiest, wealthiest and wisest generation that has ever lived and the future looks even better as the population grows barely at all and the four countries of the world compete for immigrants.

In history classes children learn about the ancient climate change theorists who almost took over the world on the pretense of saving the world and mankind. They will learn how the climate change theorists and alarmists were just as wrong as the earlier flat-earthers.