Do you think about the future? If so, how do you think about
the future? How does the way you think about the future, or the absence of
thought, influence the future?
The future is full of a lot of
uncertainties. Our world is made up of
several complex systems that are threatened by collapse everyday, and we wonder
what will happen? Instead of thinking about the future as something to predict,
lets look at it as a pattern. If we use pattern recognition in the complex
system of climate we can think about inventing the future. Climate leaves its
mark on us through its fingerprint, its DNA for say. If we look at it from a
larger scale we see a warm weather pattern, and those couple cold days no
longer matter. These patterns, climate’s fingerprint, validates our climate
models supporting predictions.
In
general, when we think about climate change many think of the sad visuals of
the polar bears, the Arctic as the Bellwether for climate change. In Fingerprint, bellwether, model event:
Climate change as speculative anthropology Jerome Whitington says, “What about the future? The idea of a
bellwether, which reads the future into present-day patterns, foregrounds the
flickering anticipation of circumpolar political ecology and the geological
time of fossil energy. As we can see by using this approach, climate change’s
presence is established through many uncertain features, which can be used as a
powerful tool when thinking about the future. The polar bear idea seems to show
the actuality of climate change.
We should think about the future,
but not with fear, instead with anticipation. We must think also with the
knowledge of how this thinking will shape our future of climate change.
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