Jane McGonigal

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 is 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.

Xerophoria.

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 and join 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.