After the wars, the droughts, the floods, and the great losses that climate change will have wrought, other scenarios are also imaginable.  Perhaps a global society will learn, as some native peoples learned in the past, how to maintain their ecosystem. Perhaps they will thrive.  In such a future, perhaps, a much smaller population of people will be able to live well and educate their children to understand their role within the natural world.  In such a vision, perhaps most of the land and sea will be wild but managed to foster bio-diversity and ecological health.  A circular economy powered by renewable energy will produce no waste, recycling everything into new production.  Labor will be automated and informed by cumulative expertise, allowing more attention to the details of production and recycling.  Permaculture food forests might be intensely managed through robotics and even integrated into the city to recycle nutrients, produce local food, and offer beautiful spaces for people to learn about their local habitats.    In different ecological regions local cultures might develop patterns of living, eating, crafts production, art, science, and literature specific to their place, which enrich their ecosystems rather than degrade them.

A thousand years from now the world will be damaged irrevocably, and less rich than it is now or has been in the past.  People will still be here and will still be able to choose how to live.