It is the year 2050. To think that only 39 years ago the world was full of selfishness, consumerism, stereotypes, religious prejudice and violence, is hard to believe. But so it was, the human race reached a point of self-destruction that no one thought could be stopped. Everything that was created to help us humans was misused for self-destruction instead.
Everything changed thanks to the people who began to get tired of lies and corruption and decided to do something about it. It all began with peaceful protests. First, protests against corrupt governments, then protests demanding fundamental rights such as better and more accessible education for all. The protests always continued to be peaceful but began to be more active. People began to protest against big corporations by not using their products and using alternatives to them. New businesses began and were co-operatively administered, with shared ownership and shared profits. This kind of protest was a major blow against corporations.
People became so united that now there is a sense of understanding and community locally and globally. We are now truly ruling, the way a democracy should be. Developing countries understood that selling their natural resources wasn’t the answer to poverty. Instead policies of natural restoration were created, better education was implemented. Investing in the people was the answer to our crisis. With better education and everyone’s resolution of doing good no matter who, the world is what writers from the past would have called utopic.
It was hard at the beginning but now that the fruits of those decisions are flourishing the world is very different from what 39 years ago we thought it would be.
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Author: Silvia Rothlisbeger
