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We are building the world’s largest database of social change milestones, from the first fire to today’s good news. Change is not only possible, it has happened consistently throughout human history.
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2090 C.E. ???
Through aggressive conservation and sustainable development efforts, humanity succeeds in significantly slowing biodiversity loss and perhaps even ending Earth's "sixth mass extinction" event. Combined with extensive climate mitigation and adaptation, these conservation efforts help restore the world's ecosystems to their former vibrancy and health, supporting both the innate value of natural life and the human economies that rely on that life.
2069 C.E.
As of 2024, over 11 million people globally lived in prisons, often in miserable conditions, frequently exposed to violence and sexual abuse, and without meaningful attempts to rehabilitate them and reintegrate them into society. However, after decades of concerted effort to address the circumstances that push people into crime and to radically transform the prison toward a truly rehabilitative model, the global prison population begins dropping precipitously, finally reaching the milestone of less than one million prisoners globally.
2065 C.E. ???
The world's last countries affirm the right of all adults to love who they love and marry the partner of their choice. The achievement not only offers justice and liberty for hundreds of millions of people, but further reduces the stigma against LGBTQ citizens around the world, fostering improved mental health and reducing bullying and violence.
2057 C.E. ???
After decades of improving recycling systems, public behavior change campaigns, policy change, and more, the U.S. achieves a dramatic reduction in plastic waste, boosting both ecosystem and public health outcomes.
2056 C.E. ???
After concerted efforts to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and restore collapsed reefs, the world's corals begin adding more volume than they lose every year for the first time in decades.
2054 C.E.
Through the development of effective vaccines and treatment plans and reliable ways to send care to poor and rural populations, the world's nations effectively eliminate HIV as a cause of death worldwide. As of 2023, over 42 million people had died of HIV-related causes since the beginning of the epidemic. By the 2050s, such deaths become mostly a thing of the past.
2054 C.E. ???
Malaria has been one of the biggest scourges on humanity for millennia and mostly kills babies and infants. However, through the widespread dissemination of a vaccine developed in the 2020s and other mechanisms, global efforts to eradicate perhaps the deadliest disease known to humanity finally find resounding success. In the 20th century alone, malaria claimed between 150 million and 300 million lives, accounting for 2-5% of all deaths globally. By the halfway point of the 21st century, these deaths had been effectively eliminated.
2054 C.E. ???
As of 2023, the four species were among the most endangered mammals in Europe, but made a striking comeback due to fierce conservation and rewilding efforts.
2052 C.E. ???
Though food waste rose for decades as more people around the world grew more affluent (and thus more willing and able to waste), total global food waste finally begins to decline due to new policies and increased consumer awareness.
2052 C.E. ???
Between the 1970s and 2020s, global meat production more than tripled, making it one of the most significant contributors to the climate crisis. However, in this imagined milestone, conscious consumers worldwide mindful of the environmental, health, and animal rights implications of their eating habits finally succeed in reversing this centuries-long trend.
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