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With everything going on in the world right now, it can be really scary, at times even unthinkable, to imagine how the future may unfold.
But game designer Jay McGonigal is constantly imagining different scenarios for our future on this planet.
And she believes that unimaginable and unthinkable are actually the two most dangerous words in the English language.
In her talk, why helping people expand their imaginations is necessary for our survival.
As a futurist, I think the two most dangerous words in the English language that are unimaginable and unthinkable.
So I want to invite you to think creatively and courageously about some hard -to -imagine possibilities.
Let's play a game of what if.
I'll describe three hypothetical future scenarios.
You try to imagine how you would feel and what you would do if you woke up in these strange new worlds.
Future number one, It's 2033.
Extreme heat, wildfire and droughts have been worse than even the most dire climate predictions, so now geoengineering is up for a global vote.
Nine billion people are eligible to vote yes or no on a 10 -year plan of aggressive solar radiation management, injecting sulfate particles into the atmosphere to block some of the sun's rays.
The election is called Sun Exit.
I mean it. They're saying a yes on sun exit could bring about a 10 -year winter, but it could also solve some of our biggest climate challenges.
Is it worth the risks, the unintended consequences?
How would you vote?
How would you educate yourself to be ready to vote?
Scenario update. Sun exit passed.
We're doing it. Solar radiation management starts in 10 days.
Now, how do you feel?
What do you do in the next 10 days to get ready?
OK, it's one year later.
The geoengineering is working, yes, but paradoxically, trust in science is now at an all -time low.
People are saying there are mental and physical side effects.
Is it just misinformation?
What do you do to stay healthy?
New future, OK, it's 2029 now, and your federal government has gone full -blown, zero -waste, authoritarian style.
It is now illegal to throw anything away.
They literally took everyone's garbage cans.
Now, composting's still allowed, recycling never worked, and garbage, you can't make any of it.
Nothing. But there's some good news.
Psychologists have invented a new word to capture the positive emotion that defines life in a zero -waste age.
Zerophoria! It's a combination of joy, pride and resourcefulness.
A lightness of being that comes from wasting nothing and leaving no trace behind.
How do you react to these changes?
Do you learn new habits, help others adapt, or do you rise up enjoying the pro -trash resistance or become a reformer, propose ways to make zero -waste society better?
OK, let's imagine one final future.
It's 2031. Climate migration is on the rise.
Countries with low fertility rates are competing with each other for immigrants.
governments are building climate -resilient welcome cities and paying people to move there.
It's part of a new geopolitical movement called the Welcome Party.
Up to one billion people are expected to climate relocate with assistance over the next decade.
You have been asked to take a personal survey of climate risk and intention to migrate.
The Welcome Party is collecting data to simulate and plan a safe and equitable mass -climate migration.
You have to name three climate -resilient cities you would be willing to move to given social and economic support.
Which three cities do you name?
How prepared do you feel to consider this question?
Why am I posing these hypotheticals?
Well, how often we use the words unimaginable and unthinkable in our journalism.
Look how common they've become.
We are so often shocked and blindsided by how the future unfolds, but it doesn't have to be that way.
At the Nonprofit Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California, I help people build imagination leadership skills by simulating hard -to -imagine futures like you've thought about today.
Our goal is to improve everyone's scores on three measures of future imagination, like mental flexibility, On a scale of one to 10, how plausible or realistic is this future scenario?
In other words, is it thinkable to you?
Also, realistic hope.
On a scale of one to 10, how worried or excited would you be to wake up in this future?
We want you to anticipate new risks but also opportunities for positive transformation.
And finally, future power.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how ready do you feel to help yourself and others if this future were really to happen?
This is the number we see go up the most after people imagine themselves taking action in a hypothetical world.
So the next time you have an instinct to describe a possibility as unthinkable or unimaginable, wait.
Play with that possibility instead.
help us become a community, a society, that can confidently say, we can face and we can solve previously unimaginable challenges together.
For us, there are no unthinkable futures.
Thank you. For more information about TED's curation, find out more at thed .com.
And that's it for today's show.
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This episode was produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, Alejandra Salazar, and Tonsica S ar ANIVON.
It was mixed by Christopher Faizi Bogan.
Additional support from Emma Tomner and Daniela Balorrizo.
I'm Elise Hu, I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
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