Abstract: Global water, carbon and energy cycles were linked and historically and the harmony between these cycles led to the well known 100,000 year periodicity between ice ages. The anthropogenic release of greenhouse gases, mainly due to energy generation from fossil fuels, has upset this harmony and we are now witnessing a number of positive climate feedbacks that are accelerating global warming so that climate change amelioration actions have been rendered impotent; methane release from the melting permafrost melting, carbon dioxide venting from the oceans when severe hurricanes pass over and loss of solubility of carbon dioxide as the ocean warms, together are already introducing about 3 times as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as the combined anthropogenic input. When combined with land use changes and sedimentation of the world's rivers this will pose considerable challenges for the human race in the next 50 years. It is important that we do not, yet again, scramble towards short term engineering fixes motivated by material gain, but rather determine the likely ends states and then assess the implications for water resources, food production and living space; ameliorations actions can then be designed. I will outline some of the processes leading to the likely new end state, explore the stress on water resources already being experienced and suggest a possible course of action in order to adjust to the likely changes that the earth will undergo in the next 50 years..