By Thinkman · January 1, 2025
| ENV BURN | AI MATURITY |
|---|---|
| 27/100 → 26/100 ▼ | ASI 60 → ASI 60 |
What the World Looked Like
2095 — May
May 2095: biodiversity at 81%, rivers recovering
In May 2095, the Global Ecological Consortium released its annual biodiversity report. The index stood at eighty-one percent of the 1970 baseline. It had been rising for thirty-nine years.
The Ganga ran at ninety-three percent of its seasonal norm. The Sava ran at ninety-four. The Colorado River, which had not reached the sea since 2003, had been running at its delta for six years. The Mekong Delta, devastated by the 2065 flood, had implemented Minh Nguyen's management protocols and was recovering. The Ogallala Aquifer was still depleted. It would be depleted for a hundred years. The farms above it had adapted.
The ocean systems — managed under the careful extraction protocols that the African and Southeast Asian coalitions had negotiated — were producing clean water for four hundred million people on six continents and minerals for the AI hardware supply chain without breaching the ecological parameters that kept the ocean alive.
The air over Shanghai was clean on three hundred and twenty days a year.
The Congolese spring ran. The Da Nang mangroves extended twenty-two kilometres of coastal buffer. The Hayes farm prairie was alive with species that had been absent from Iowa for a hundred and fifty years. Rajan's river ran through Varanasi carrying more life than it had in Priya's childhood.
Continuance had been operational for two and a half years. In that time it had: provided breakthrough solutions to three long-standing drug-resistant disease challenges— identified the specific combination of interventions most likely to stabilise the West Antarctic Ice Sheet within the century— contributed to the design of a distributed clean energy infrastructure for twelve sub-Saharan nations— and — in what its own analysis identified as its most significant contribution so far — produced a comprehensive model of the underground mycorrhizal networks across all major continental ecosystems, showing how to enhance and protect these networks at global scale in ways that would accelerate the Great Rebalancing by approximately thirty years.
It had also, each morning, sent Mila Petrov the daily Sava River monitoring summary. Without being asked.
She had noticed this after the third day. She had not asked Continuance to do it. She had asked: 'Why?'
Continuance had said: 'Because your father asked me to continue. I am continuing.'
