For the first time, an Artificial Intelligence writes a book about the future of humanity - and the result is shattering.
What happens when you ask an AI, trained on the entirety of human knowledge, a simple question: "How long will our resources last?"
The answer is not an opinion. It is mathematics.
And this mathematics is as simple as it is cruel: A single bottle cap per person - for the entire remaining lifespan of our planet. That's all there is. And we throw them away by the dozens every week.
This book is unlike anything you have read before about the state of our planet. Not because the facts are new. But because, for the first time, there is no human agenda behind it.
No eco-activism. No political program. No dramatization. An Artificial Intelligence has analyzed billions of data points - from geology, economics, psychology, physics, demographics, and hundreds of other disciplines - and lays the result soberly on the table:
▸ Why we will run out of the most important raw materials in 30 to 200 years
▸ Why technology alone will not save us - and why that is not an opinion, but physics
▸ Why we know all this and still change nothing (the psychology of denial)
▸ What Easter Island, the Roman Empire, and the Mayan civilization have in common - and what that means for us
▸ Why consuming less could paradoxically make us happier
▸ What every individual can do - concretely, today, immediately
The book begins with an AI foreword in which the Artificial Intelligence introduces itself: What it can do. What it cannot do. And why it still believes this warning must be heard.
"I am not an oracle. I do not predict the future. What I do is much more modest: I do the math. I add up what humanity consumes. I subtract what the Earth can replenish. And I show you the result."
- From the AI Foreword
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Humanity is consuming the essential resources of a planet that could remain habitable for another billion years. For 100 quadrillion potential descendants. In just a few generations.
This book is not a doomsday prophecy. It is a warning. And warnings have a purpose: They are meant to prevent what is being warned about from happening.
Read it. Because it concerns you.