50 years into the future

My name is Nicholas Nolasco and this is my first year at Cal State L.A. Mrs. Hix has been my English Proffessor all year long and since I have attended her english course, our class has been learning about the environment. we learned about how people view the environment, how religious beliefs and the environment connect, and most inportantly what our views and thoughts on the environment are.
50 years from now is tough to imagine, but based on what I have learned in class so far, it looks like it will be a very grim one. It seems as though the future will be a very bad place to live with the environment taking a turn for the worst. In 50 years, one major problem I see will be in the future is the shortage of water and will be very similar to the parable of the sower by Octavia Butler. In the novel water is very scarce. It is so scarce that only the rich can even afford to bathe themselves. I see our future very close to this since the price of water is always rising every year.
The environment is currently terrible. In 50 years i can possibly imagine it being worse than the way Octavia Butler described it in the book.we have an oil spill in the Ocean, a nuclear spill in Japan and in California, i recently heard about a huge earthquake that we should be expecting soon! I man how much worse can our environment get! 50 years into the future it will probably be much worse but i really hope not.
we need to start helping and preserving the environment instead of destroying it and we need to start as soon as possible. we need to also make people aware of whats going on in our environment and how its going to hurt us in the future because I know i did not think about the environment and the future it holds before i took this class. If we make more people aware about how bad our environment is, then i believe we can make a change for the better.