The Venture to a Type I Civilizantion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI6vANpHhOA

I thought this was a very interesting video - I even posted the link on my facebook. Michio Kaku estimates that we will have acheived Type I status in about 100 years. Do I think he's right? No, I don't. I think it's possible for us to attain that kind of control and that kind of planetary power, but I think that humans will have destroyed the planet before we can. We can't even convince people to recycle, let alone convince them to rely on solar power.

To attain Type I status, the world would have to come together, and work together to achieve this common goal. However, there are large groups of people who do not accept anyone but themselves. Kaku mentions terrorists as one of these groups of people. If the goal of one group is to destroy another group, the world will never be able to come together.

I wish I thought this were possible. Just the simple idea of the world working together for a common goal is exciting, let alone ending up in outer space!

I think what will probably happen is someone will destroy the basis of our civilization with a weapon of mass desctruction, and before we've had time to adjust to solar energy, we won't have connectedness enough to even control the temperature inside our houses, let alone planetary phenomenae.