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Earth 2100 | (2009) |
| 00:00:01 (Lucy, Narrator) In my life, I've seen New York City under full quarantine. |
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| 00:00:05 The Midwest, overrun, devastated by pests. |
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| 00:00:08 Plagues sweep across California. |
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| 00:00:10 And then what happened next was something none of us saw coming. |
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| 00:00:14 It became a race against time to save our future, |
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| 00:00:16 to even have a future. |
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| 00:00:18 It's the year 2100 and I survived. |
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| 00:00:22 (VO) To change the future, first you have to imagine it. |
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| 00:00:26 'Earth 2100'' |
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| 00:00:28 starts now. |
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| 00:00:34 The idea that within this century, perhaps in your lifetime, |
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| 00:00:37 our civilization could lie in ruins seems unbelievable. |
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| 00:00:42 But according to some of the world’s leading minds, |
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| 00:00:45 that's not just a worst-case scenario, it's a real possibility. |
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| 00:00:49 Good evening, I'm Bob Woodruff. |
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| 00:00:51 Over the next two hours, we'll take you on a journey into a world |
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| 00:00:55 that could await us and our children. |
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| 00:00:57 370,000 babies will be born today. |
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| 00:01:00 And we've taken the liberty of creating one more, |
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| 00:01:03 a fictional character we’re calling Lucy, who will be our guide through this century. |
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| 00:01:08 Her Iife story is not a prediction about what will happen, |
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| 00:01:12 but what might happen. |
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| 00:01:31 (Lucy) This once glorious city, whose lights at night could be seen for miles, |
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| 00:01:36 empty now. |
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| 00:01:40 Its towering skyscrapers, once a testament to our ingenuity, |
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| 00:01:44 now stand as crumbling monuments to our demise. |
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| 00:01:50 Maybe only artists can grasp what that kind of future really holds for us. |
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| 00:01:54 It's perhaps in the area that we think of today as science fiction, |
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| 00:01:58 but that could be a very real future for the planet. |
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| 00:02:02 A hundred years from now, if New York is abandoned, |
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