What do you think will happen before 2035?

[Sapphire Lightning 784]

By 2035, resources will be much tighter. A lot of the oil wells will have run dry, and due to a lack of proper investing in other power sources, there will be serious logistical issues. Also, many of the massive aquafers will be more than fully drained by that time and will have compressed, therefor never to fill up again. One of these aquifers is where the "bread basket" of the US gets it water from, and it currently dropping by feet per month, and has been dropping for decades.

 

Due to the resource crunch, the world of 2035 will look like:

 

There will be much less traffic in developed countries. Due to the demand for alternative energy, it will be expensive to have a personal vehicle.

 

EVERYTHING will be very expensive. Due to the high cost of resources (materials as well as fuels) manufacturing, transporting, warehousing, etc will be sky high. All logistical systems will feel the pinch.

 

McD's will have to have a 15 dollar menu, where you can buy a kids hamburger for 15 dollars.

 

Meat and other animal products will be ridiculously expensive. The US government already subsidizes animal products heavily by making incentives to grow animal feed and sell it below cost. As of today, if the US gov stopped subsidizing animal feed, a gallon of milk would cost more than 10 dollars. It will be far more expensive come 2035.

 

There will be heavy water and food rationing in much of the world.

 

I know a lot of ponies here have a more positive view of the future, but we are seriously raping the planet and that will not bode well for our future.

 

Also, everyone will worship Celesita and Luna.

 

This is a neat read, and rehashes what scientists have been saying for a long time:

http://www.quantumrun.com/prediction/vegetarians-will-reign-supreme-after-meat-shock-2035-future-food-p2

[Anneal 2,197]

By 2035, resources will be much tighter. A lot of the oil wells will have run dry, and due to a lack of proper investing in other power sources, there will be serious logistical issues. Also, many of the massive aquafers will be more than fully drained by that time and will have compressed, therefor never to fill up again. One of these aquifers is where the "bread basket" of the US gets it water from, and it currently dropping by feet per month, and has been dropping for decades.

 

Due to the resource crunch, the world of 2035 will look like:

 

There will be much less traffic in developed countries. Due to the demand for alternative energy, it will be expensive to have a personal vehicle.

 

EVERYTHING will be very expensive. Due to the high cost of resources (materials as well as fuels) manufacturing, transporting, warehousing, etc will be sky high. All logistical systems will feel the pinch.

 

McD's will have to have a 15 dollar menu, where you can buy a kids hamburger for 15 dollars.

 

Meat and other animal products will be ridiculously expensive. The US government already subsidizes animal products heavily by making incentives to grow animal feed and sell it below cost. As of today, if the US gov stopped subsidizing animal feed, a gallon of milk would cost more than 10 dollars. It will be far more expensive come 2035.

 

There will be heavy water and food rationing in much of the world.

 

I know a lot of ponies here have a more positive view of the future, but we are seriously raping the planet and that will not bode well for our future.

 

Also, everyone will worship Celesita and Luna.

 

This is a neat read, and rehashes what scientists have been saying for a long time:

http://www.quantumrun.com/prediction/vegetarians-will-reign-supreme-after-meat-shock-2035-future-food-p2

 

We're actually investing pretty hard on solar energy, and it appears by several graphs that it is growing exponentially:

 

http://www.behindenergy.com/gli-investimenti-nelle-energie-rinnovabili-hanno-raggiunto-livelli-record-nel-2015/7580/?lang=en

 

 

 

The only issue is that while renewable energy, not including hydro and nuclear, will continue to be developed well into the 2030s, it's still not enough to completely supplement fossil fuels – even by 2030s the U.S. will just hit 25% renewable (which is good, but like I said, not enough). Canada, though, might actually hit 90% renewable, hydro, and nuclear (right now it's sitting at 60%, so it's ambitious but very possible). Switzerland and Austria may soon follow suit.

 

We may have to rely on natural gas and nuclear power for energy consumption for a while; right now it's getting more costly to run nuclear plants in the U.S. mostly because of reactor age and competition against easily accessible natural gas, though we might get a nuclear power revival in the 2020s after Gen IV thorium-based nuclear reactors, which have been quietly researched and developed over the years, finally take off, using innovative tech (molten salt reactors, sodium-cooled fast reactors, and a few more variants).

 

These new nuclear plants will be far more fuel efficient and produce far more power, and are safer and proliferation resistant (though current nuclear reactors are pretty safe and hard to turn into a weapon anyways). Nuclear waste from thorium has shorter half-lives as well (few centuries instead of millenia) and is cleaner to dispose of. Incidentally, the U.S., Australia, and India hold a lot of thorium reserves, so we can last a good while on these nuclear plants, at least until we unlock the door of nuclear fusion reactors.

 

As for the water problem...our only best chance is desalinization. It's going to be far more efficient and more popular in the future, but it's not going to do that much to provide for the 9 million people we will have in the future and it's energy-intensive enough to be used in developed countries. The U.S. Southwest is going to suffer from heavy droughts (and currently it already is), and agriculture will shift from rural areas to urban areas as vertical farming explodes in use in the 2020s (being far more efficient, cleaner, and water-conserving than regular farms).

 

While the U.S., Europe, and some parts of Asia can somewhat manage water shortages (nano-tech actually helps with filtration and can mitigate some of the damage), unfortunately the Middle East and North Africa, which are one of the most intensive in water use, are literally going to have nothing else to rely upon for water (Yemen is already a foreboding to this). Water is going to become a weapon of war in the Middle East and parts of Africa, and this is made worse by oil supply falling behind demand, and it's expected that unless they make drastic changes to their economies now, they are going to experience serious economic decline.

 

GMO crops and another innovation, in-vitro meat ("growing" meat through cultivated animal cells), are also going to be another method to mitigate food shortage. There is a fair amount of controversy over GMOs today and I believe there will be even more over in-vitro meat, but they turn out to be much cheaper than traditional crops and meat (which will likely be almost four times its current price), mostly because it doesn't involve killing animals and using massive amounts of water and, in addition to vertical farming, land.

 

We have a lot of innovative solutions to deal with problems of the future, but we shouldn't rely on them to get us through. I think humans can get through it and we're not that screwed as we think we are.

[Dreambiscuit 9,560]

I'm not sure about that statement. After the '60s was still the Space Race (albeit it lightens up as NASA and the USSR space program groups cooperate), and it certainly wasn't stagnant. I'm pretty sure everyone did care when the NASA sent up Skylab or started the Space Shuttle Program, and the many other programs that finally gave us better knowledge about Venus and Mars ( Venera, Vega, Mars, Mariner, Pioneer, and Viking). And even after NASA and the Russians temporarily lost direction post-Cold War, they went right back to developing new probes and spacecraft; hell, the Mars space probes required even more innovative tech to work, the Dawn probe – the first to flyby Vesta and Ceres – needs scientists to heavily improve on ion propulsion (which had been built well in the 60s and 70s, but this was the first time it was actually built on space probes).

 

The Space Race alone brought new tech such as solar panels (which continues to be improved on today for greater efficiency), laptops, satellite TV, infrared smoke detectors (not directly made by NASA but improved on and used by Skylab), GPS, even something as small as joysticks. There's a ridiculous anount of things that came from space program spinoffs, and even without that you still get tablets and cell phones (built decades before, but now they're far lighter and have far more functions, not something you can do within the 20th century even), various vaccines, antiobiotics, and other medicine (some that have only been introduced less than two decades ago and are very much considered essentials in modern society), even things small like CD-ROM (and now it's vastly improved). If anything it is not "rearranging" things to make it look new (some were based off ideas set in stone some time before, but based off and improved =/= copied off).

 

And that still goes for social ideas. Second wave feminism in the 70s and 80s finally pulled women to the same playing field as men (if not at least the same opportunities) and the LGBT movement only really gained traction in the 90s. Compared to the 60s where women were told to stay in the kitchen and being gay was apparently equal to sodomy, we've gotten pretty far.

 

Even today we're hearing about new tech that's coming out, they're far from copying from others (how do you copy 4KHD TVs and the arriving universal flu vaccine, anyways?). Of course there is greed, there always will be. But when you see entrepreneurs like Elon Musk or Larry Ellison or Larry Page and Sergey Brin who actually make progress for humanity (if they just wanted the money they can just shut their services down in a few years and live with their ridiculous loads of wealth) rather than exploit off the poor, that should be a bit of evidence that some people are willing to think more of progress and development, not wealth (like the scientists around the world that work their loads off trying to come up with new things for humanity).

 

By 2035, we're going to get new problems, some more difficult than others (global warming floods, soaring unemployment due to low-skill automation, record high depression rates), but I think we can handle it. Humans have always faced difficult hardships and can handle more. Like I said, Generation X is getting their turn in politics anyway, we might very likely see large political change in the next decade.

 

Also, for the people who are talking about Trump and Clinton (I honestly expected that)...a presidential election can't influence very much. We've gotten disappointed over 2004 before, an extra term isn't going to immediately wipe out the U.S., let alone the whole planet.

First of all, my apologies to all! I guess I did come off a little pessimistic. Basically when I said the world was getting stagnant I was comparing it to the '60s (and should have of some of the '70s) which did have a lot going on. My bad for not clarifying that.

Space travel just seems like one area that's slowed down, not in terms of quantity of spaceflights and missions into space (and obviously the Space Station is pretty awesome) but the fact that we haven't returned to the moon, or yet stepped a human foot on Mars. In the '60s, when Kennedy committed us to going to the moon, damned if we weren't there by the end of the decade. Right now, without there being that spirit of competition with Russia, I wonder if we could get to the Mars (or even the moon again) in such a short time frame. NASA always sites how dangerous it is and that's fine. But all exploration is, so leave it up to those who decide it's worth it.

Things like cellphones and other gadgets, yes they did exist and have been improved and miniaturized. This isn't literally 'rearranging and reselling' them (as they do with computers and operating systems now with minimal improvement) but merely advancing something already done instead of forging new ground. But in all fairness, one can't just say "Okay, invent something brilliant from scratch" and simply will it into existence, so I'll relent. 

As far as feminism in the '70s and '80s, well, I firmly believe it to be a major step backward (for women, especially) but that's a matter of opinion and belongs under Debating where I do not wish to go. I respect anyone's opinion as long as it is their opinion and not just a playback of social conditioning. 

Granted, there are innovations in the world, my overextended blanket statements should not be taken literally when I say there aren't any. And yes, there are entrepreneurs and philanthropists who advance technology and culture. I do believe there are countless brilliant innovators in the world today, and I just as firmly believe they could bring about astonishing improvements in every field, if they get their chance. But that isn't always the case unless they have money, connections or a great deal of luck.

Universal Flu vaccine? Well, I'll let it's ultimate success speak for itself if it can. 

I do thank you, Sealand, for your opinions and respect them. And again, I do apologize for coming off a little grim,    even now.

Edited May 3, 2016 by Dreambiscuit

[Detritus 258]

My overly optimistic predictions:

 

- We break the light speed barrier and travel to Alpha Centauri in a matter of weeks

- The first androids with human-level intelligence appear

- Cold fusion reactors replace fossil fuel power plants

- Nanite augmented immune systems put an end to most disease

- Quantum computers finally get off the ground

- Self driving cars become mainstream, and auto accidents greatly decrease.

- The U.S. will finally get a proper health care system... when we no longer need it

 

 

My pessimistic (but probably realistic) predictions:

 

- Oil runs out and the world enters a global depression as a result

- Climate change causes bizarre weather patterns, droughts, and floods, and decimates crops worldwide

- North Korea nukes... somewhere. World War III begins

- Maybe if we're lucky, we'll finally have a manned Mars mission

- Everything (even the toilet) will be connected to the Internet, and all privacy will be gone

- Robots will take away all of our jobs

- Computer processors will still be roughly as fast as they are now, but they'll have 100 cores that no software can even take advantage of.

- Smart phones and laptops will be so thin that you won't be able to see them if you turn them sideways... and people will still care for some reason.

- Proper English will be completely replaced by texting lingo

[Wind Chaser 4,768]

The outlook is very mixed. While our political state, both in the US and worldwide, is rapidly deteriorating into a state of polarization and extremism due to overpopulation, globalization, and a strained global economy, technological and scientific progress is at an apex.

 

The two most influential technologies of this decade are drones and 3D printers. They have the potential to revolutionize transportation and manufacturing immensely by cutting down on labor and expenses, improving safety, and increasing productivity. Self-driving cars will once again do that to the transportation sector and the possible fusion reactor we might see in the next decade will do that to the energy sector. East Asian and Middle Eastern countries will more likely be on the leading edge of new technologies in the business sector, while America innovates new ways to kill people as its 20th century infrastructure falls apart.

 

The coming wave of automation will cause a major jobs crisis that US education and social systems specifically are ill-equipped to handle. It is predicted that about 40% of current jobs will become automated and thus unemployable in the specified timeframe. Income inequality will rise unless some sort of expansion of welfare was created. Many are proposing a guaranteed minimum income.

 

My favorite prediction for the future involves that our generation and the ones after us will likely grow into a freelance workforce. Instead of committing ourselves to a single employer for an indefinite amount of time, more people will move from one task to another between different companies. Labor opportunities will become more scarce in the coming years, and millenials are known to be job-hoppers, thus this is a great way for us to adapt. An improved and more affordable education system as well as a wider social safety net could incentivize this sort of lifestyle.

[Anneal 2,197]

My overly optimistic predictions:

 

- We break the light speed barrier and travel to Alpha Centauri in a matter of weeks

- The first androids with human-level intelligence appear

- Cold fusion reactors replace fossil fuel power plants

- Nanite augmented immune systems put an end to most disease

- Quantum computers finally get off the ground

- Self driving cars become mainstream, and auto accidents greatly decrease.

- The U.S. will finally get a proper health care system... when we no longer need it

 

 

My pessimistic (but probably realistic) predictions:

 

- Oil runs out and the world enters a global depression as a result

- Climate change causes bizarre weather patterns, droughts, and floods, and decimates crops worldwide

- North Korea nukes... somewhere. World War III begins

- Maybe if we're lucky, we'll finally have a manned Mars mission

- Everything (even the toilet) will be connected to the Internet, and all privacy will be gone

- Robots will take away all of our jobs

- Computer processors will still be roughly as fast as they are now, but they'll have 100 cores that no software can even take advantage of.

- Smart phones and laptops will be so thin that you won't be able to see them if you turn them sideways... and people will still care for some reason.

- Proper English will be completely replaced by texting lingo

Your optimistic predictions mght be a bit too optimistic there. We'll surely enough have a manned mission to Mars and some Apollo asteroids (Vesta and Ceres might be a new target in the 2060s for manned missions), but FTL will be far too out of our reach in the 2030s and even the 22nd century. We'll be pretty lucky if we can hit even a tenth of the vacuum speed of light in the end of the 21st; Einstein unfortunately puts a big monkey wrench towards FTL, so we won't really have a chance to go around that any time soon.

 

We might get fusion reactors in the mid-late 21st and the singularity for robotics around the 22nd. They're both still far off (not as far as FTL travel though). Nanotech is still relatively young in 2035, but it will really take off in the mid 21st, a time when we really need it. Self-driving or at least semi-autonomous vehicles will actually become more common as you said, though.

 

As for the "pessimistic" views, computer processors might go exponentially faster. Things that typically take several GB of data might just take no more than a few minutes to download. They are minaturized to extremely small scales (sometimes down to a few square nanometers). Smartphones and laptops will probably look like touch-screen glass pads and are far more personalized. Less commonly used would be holoscreens (mostly because they are more expensive).

 

The outlook is very mixed. While our political state, both in the US and worldwide, is rapidly deteriorating into a state of polarization and extremism due to overpopulation, globalization, and a strained global economy, technological and scientific progress is at an apex.

The two most influential technologies of this decade are drones and 3D printers. They have the potential to revolutionize transportation and manufacturing immensely by cutting down on labor and expenses, improving safety, and increasing productivity. Self-driving cars will once again do that to the transportation sector and the possible fusion reactor we might see in the next decade will do that to the energy sector. East Asian and Middle Eastern countries will more likely be on the leading edge of new technologies in the business sector, while America innovates new ways to kill people as its 20th century infrastructure falls apart.

The coming wave of automation will cause a major jobs crisis that US education and social systems specifically are ill-equipped to handle. It is predicted that about 40% of current jobs will become automated and thus unemployable in the specified timeframe. Income inequality will rise unless some sort of expansion of welfare was created. Many are proposing a guaranteed minimum income.

My favorite prediction for the future involves that our generation and the ones after us will likely grow into a freelance workforce. Instead of committing ourselves to a single employer for an indefinite amount of time, more people will move from one task to another between different companies. Labor opportunities will become more scarce in the coming years, and millenials are known to be job-hoppers, thus this is a great way for us to adapt. An improved and more affordable education system as well as a wider social safety net could incentivize this sort of lifestyle.

The U.S. is not quite doomed, at least how I see it, but it's going to lose some influence as a few more countries join in onto the super power group (namely India, though Mexico and Brazil are also possible). The U.S. population is also jumping to 400 million, added by drought in the West (both a significant part of their agriculture and trade), soaring unemployment (40% is a bit too much, IMO; 25% is a better number. Don't get me wrong, that still affects at least 45 million people negatively) due to the Robotic Revolution and further deindustrialization.

 

Some will be permanently unemployed as low-skill, low-wage jobs; income inequality I'm not too sure of, but a few charts claim that world income inequality will generally decrease ( http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/558daab46bb3f7eb7edaa49b-538/income-distribution-chart-1.png ). I think that the idea has some evidence, especially since Southern Africa, parts of South America, the Caribbean, and Indochina are slowly becoming more developed, and that living standards will generally go up as is natural of technological development (that doesn't mean everyone gets living standards, by the way).

 

Generation X, like I said, is also more mixed in political ideas and much more diverse, so we can expect some large changes in the left and right political wings (not necessarily extremist, just different), and more independents and libertarians getting a greater voice in the U.S.

 

As for the Middle East...I'm not sure it's going to be on the lead as you think it will. The oil industry is slowly going to meet its death in the 2030s; while some countries already have other industry and commercial options, others have a completely oil-reliant economy and will face serious economic decline. Iran and Turkey will play more important roles in the global economy (potentially becoming developed countries) and have more influence in the Middle East, but the region overall is not going to be pretty in the future and might be the keg for a massive war.

 

East Asia will do pretty well, though. China's population is finally stabilizing, and the country's poverty rates have dropped significantly. China is still very polluted, but the cleanups are making a bit of progress. Indochina will play a much bigger role, and India is going to economically be more like the China we have today, having a stronger industry and economy and bigger influence in the global theater, but facing serious overpopulation and various other issues (like Bangladesh disappearing on the map due to climate change floods; India is going to face the biggest refugee movement in the world).

 

Also, retirement ages are going to be set back to 70 and depression will become the biggest global burden in the 2030s.

[Luna 831 466]

I really think the world will be like fallout 4. Best case scenario though like terminator.

[Detritus 258]

Your optimistic predictions mght be a bit too optimistic there. We'll surely enough have a manned mission to Mars and some Apollo asteroids (Vesta and Ceres might be a new target in the 2060s for manned missions), but FTL will be far too out of our reach in the 2030s and even the 22nd century. We'll be pretty lucky if we can hit even a tenth of the vacuum speed of light in the end of the 21st; Einstein unfortunately puts a big monkey wrench towards FTL, so we won't really have a chance to go around that any time soon.

 

We might get fusion reactors in the mid-late 21st and the singularity for robotics around the 22nd. They're both still far off (not as far as FTL travel though). Nanotech is still relatively young in 2035, but it will really take off in the mid 21st, a time when we really need it. Self-driving or at least semi-autonomous vehicles will actually become more common as you said, though.

 

As for the "pessimistic" views, computer processors might go exponentially faster. Things that typically take several GB of data might just take no more than a few minutes to download. They are minaturized to extremely small scales (sometimes down to a few square nanometers). Smartphones and laptops will probably look like touch-screen glass pads and are far more personalized. Less commonly used would be holoscreens (mostly because they are more expensive).

 

Yep. Most of my "optimistic" predictions there were just me joking around. Barring some kind of unexpected discovery, I don't see FTL travel happening in my lifetime - if ever. The first manned mission to Mars is probably the most that will be accomplished by 2035.

 

I think the only plausible prediction I had there was the self-driving car one. Even that one might be a bit too optimistic though.

[Lil Pip 775]

I replied earlier, but technology gains are simply amazing, ever watch those Vsauce mind blown videos? Amazing stuff, in the future there will be synthetic culttefish skin you could prolly wear over your body and monitor vitals, and you can have robotic limbs mind controlled, or if youw ere paralyzed you can wlak again thanks to extra/intercranial electrodes connected to your arms and therapy. There will be lab grown organs of your own dna if you ever need a transplant (that's a lot of organs, it'd be expensive I'm sure prolly reserved for some people.

 

There are going to be sky scraper farms. Virtual reality will improve.

 

Just thinking about it fills me with those chemicals in the brain that makes my mouth water.

[Anneal 2,197]

Yep. Most of my "optimistic" predictions there were just me joking around. Barring some kind of unexpected discovery, I don't see FTL travel happening in my lifetime - if ever. The first manned mission to Mars is probably the most that will be accomplished by 2035.

 

I think the only plausible prediction I had there was the self-driving car one. Even that one might be a bit too optimistic though.

No, we already have them out now and they will continue to be developed; Tesla (and a few others) has proven that at the very least semi-autonomous cars (auto-parking and highway autopilot) can be mass produced and can still be affordable to the upper middle-class. And several car companies already have plans to research and develop, if not make cheaper, virtually autonomous cars.

 

We already had the basic tech to start researching self-driving cars since the 90s, with a bit more time to mature they will definitely be more commonplace and significantly cut down car accident rates.

 

And we'll definitely reach Mars; around the end of the 2020s we'll finally get around to develop nuclear thermal rockets (coinciding with the development of Gen IV nuclear reactors) that will decrease travel time somewhat; these nuclear rockets are highly efficient (having very high thrust-weight ratios), moreso than standard chemical rockets. It will easily surpass the thrust capabilities of Saturn V and will be essential for further asteroid mining and manned missions to Mars. Similarly, we'll also send unmanned probes to land on the Jovian moons and fly near Trojan asteroids for scientific research. And we can expect a lot more human activity on the Moon.

[Twilight Frost 271]

1. America is still recovering after the complete and utter collapse after the Trump Presidency. 

 

2. China is now in ruins because of its droughts and over population

 

3. WWIII occurred and became nuclear but the U.S remained largely unscathed from it. Not many were fired but China was quickly disposed of. This was the result of one last desperate attempt at savings its country through war and imperialism by taking over more land and water before china collapsed. 

 

4. All other countries around the globe have sealed its borders to prevent BILLIONS of chinese from pouring into their countries and collapsing their country as well as depleting their drinking water.

 

5. Because of the republican party, China, Australia, and India and many other countries, Global warming is still in denial by half of the worlds leaders that matter and as a result, NY is now under water, The western half of the antarctic is now gone as well as ALL of the ice in Alaska and Greenland is now completely gone which also means the permafrost that had hundreds of billions of metric tons of Methane which is 10x worst than Carbon Dioxide is now in the atmosphere and the planets temperature has risen an average of 5 degrees. We are now seeing Categories of hurricanes that had to be reclassified as 6 7 and 8 and they occurr all year around now. The entire Northern Pole is cleared of ice and polar bears are now classified as extinct and have been replaced by Grizzly bears that migrated to the north. China is now boxed in and we are slowly seeing billions dying of thirst. 

 

6. A new disease has been released on the planet, this is Ebola Pox, a man made virus that was unleashed onto the earth as a way of emergency population control during Trump in 2018, but it backfired of course and now much of the planet is in danger from this, but it seems to be dying down a bit and we now have a working vaccine thanks to teamwork from Sweden and Switzerland's medical scientists. 

 

7.Russia now has the worlds first functioning Quantum computer. 

 

8.I am still alive, barely, but homeless and I still laugh at the retards who donated money to that Mars One project because it turned out to be a Con all along like I Knew it was. After 5 years passed the date of when the launch was going to happen, people finally realized that Mars one is a money scheming Hoax made up by a group of teenagers from the Netherlands to steal money from people. 

 

9. Australia has now depleted all of its resources

 

10. The great Barrier reef is 100% dead and has been bleached completely white. 80% of it has been cleared out from the ocean and is being ground up to be used as filler material for certain products since Australia has no resources left to sustain itself. 

[FluffyGoat13 375]

As long as no-one screws anything up the future is looking positive, conventional warfare (warfare between two established nation-states) is on the decline, science and technology is expanding at an accelerating rate, space travel is going especially well, disease is becoming less and less problematic (though we are running out of penicillin variants), and there are going to be more star wars films in the incredibly near future.

 

There are some downsides:

- Terrorism is spiking again.

- The aforementioned shortage of anti-biotics.

- Nationalism and isolationism is on the rise again.

- Global politics are heating up again.

- Pandas.

- We still haven't done what we needed to do by last year towards preventing drastic climate change.

[Anneal 2,197]

1. America is still recovering after the complete and utter collapse after the Trump Presidency. 

 

2. China is now in ruins because of its droughts and over population

 

3. WWIII occurred and became nuclear but the U.S remained largely unscathed from it. Not many were fired but China was quickly disposed of. This was the result of one last desperate attempt at savings its country through war and imperialism by taking over more land and water before china collapsed. 

 

4. All other countries around the globe have sealed its borders to prevent BILLIONS of chinese from pouring into their countries and collapsing their country as well as depleting their drinking water.

 

5. Because of the republican party, China, Australia, and India and many other countries, Global warming is still in denial by half of the worlds leaders that matter and as a result, NY is now under water, The western half of the antarctic is now gone as well as ALL of the ice in Alaska and Greenland is now completely gone which also means the permafrost that had hundreds of billions of metric tons of Methane which is 10x worst than Carbon Dioxide is now in the atmosphere and the planets temperature has risen an average of 5 degrees. We are now seeing Categories of hurricanes that had to be reclassified as 6 7 and 8 and they occurr all year around now. The entire Northern Pole is cleared of ice and polar bears are now classified as extinct and have been replaced by Grizzly bears that migrated to the north. China is now boxed in and we are slowly seeing billions dying of thirst. 

 

6. A new disease has been released on the planet, this is Ebola Pox, a man made virus that was unleashed onto the earth as a way of emergency population control during Trump in 2018, but it backfired of course and now much of the planet is in danger from this, but it seems to be dying down a bit and we now have a working vaccine thanks to teamwork from Sweden and Switzerland's medical scientists. 

 

7.Russia now has the worlds first functioning Quantum computer. 

 

8.I am still alive, barely, but homeless and I still laugh at the retards who donated money to that Mars One project because it turned out to be a Con all along like I Knew it was. After 5 years passed the date of when the launch was going to happen, people finally realized that Mars one is a money scheming Hoax made up by a group of teenagers from the Netherlands to steal money from people. 

 

9. Australia has now depleted all of its resources

 

10. The great Barrier reef is 100% dead and has been bleached completely white. 80% of it has been cleared out from the ocean and is being ground up to be used as filler material for certain products since Australia has no resources left to sustain itself. 

 

2. China will have a lot of issues to face, but their former one-child policy and current two-child one is actually enough to stabilize their population. In fact, most graphs suggest that China's population will steadily go down as everything simmers down there (and India's population will continue to go up...and they'll have to handle Bangladesh sometime soon when it floods). For China, the issue won't be drought, but the transition to a higher level economy.

 

As China's population stabilizes, their supply of surplus labor (a.k.a cheap labor) will drop at alarmingly higher rates. This is called the Lewis Turning Point (named after modern economist William A. Lewis), and in fact the 2010 Chinese labor unrest heavily suggests that they have already hit it; real wages in surplus labor has doubled. If China doesn't take action and have some sort of economic reform, the lack of economic dynamism (labor-intensive industries to an innovative export economy) will cause China to stagnate. This is basically the point where China can become more like its neighboring countries, or more like the South American ones.

 

3. I don't understand how a global war would occur. So many people online throw around the acronym "WWIII" without even researching on the factors and reasons of war – claiming it's for power or for profit would hold a slight bit of truth but hardly tell the full story.

 

It's fairly possible a war of significant influence would happen, though, mostly in the Middle East. The powder keg of the present day is the Middle East – with a declining oil economy, which some countries almost completely rely on, along their aquifers inevitably drying out and causing regional water shortages, it's likely to escalate from the wars we have today into something even bigger.

 

China won't play a very significant role in these wars – they're more concerned with their economy than fighting in wars. That being said, the countries who are capable of instigating a war (and not getting immediately screwed by it) don't have much motivation to; just look at the civilian response when the U.S. and Europe invaded Iraq. Even Russia is going to struggle inciting their populace to war. Not to mention it's actually more profitable for the developed nations not to go to war anyways.

 

And no country, not even North Korea, is suicidal enough to launch their nuclear missiles. Ever. It's not the Cold War anymore.

 

4. Not going to happen, and you don't need a mass refugee movements to get water shortages anyway. The U.S. Southwest is already starting to experience one. We, along with many other developed countries, are really using a whole lot of water.

 

5. Um, no. Virtually no one is denying global warming. A minority of Republicans and I'm sure a few other politicians worldwide are (and even then, no one denies deforestation, pollution, and endangering of animal and plant life anyways), but definitely not half. Regardless, no country is ignoring the issue. The U.S. isn't continuing to go business as usual; it's actually pushing for renewable energy and cleaning up their mess.

 

The Arctic is losing a lot of ice, however; it's predicted to lose more than 75% of its sea ice and contribute further to greenhouse gas emissions. We still have time to save the polar bears, bu they are now being forced to migrate we are likely to lose more than half of its population by 2035. 5 degrees Fahrenheit (2.7 degrees Celsius) is a bit too much as well; we'll have a 3 degree increase (1.7 degrees Celsius), though. That's still a serious issue.

 

6. Um...what? This sounds more like something from a sci-fi movie.

 

8. It's not really a con, but the people behind Mars One are entrepreneurs, not scientists. They aren't trying to trick anymore, but I believe they are oversimplifying the difficulties of going to Mars. Lansdorp needs to learn a lot more before he can actually expect his program to succeed, and $6 billion is hardly enough for a one way trip. Either way, Mars One isn't going to go to Mars first.

 

9/10. Yet to see evidence for Australia's apparent resource depletion.

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2. China will have a lot of issues to face, but their former one-child policy and current two-child one is actually enough to stabilize their population. In fact, most graphs suggest that China's population will steadily go down as everything simmers down there (and India's population will continue to go up...and they'll have to handle Bangladesh sometime soon when it floods). For China, the issue won't be drought, but the transition to a higher level economy.

 

As China's population stabilizes, their supply of surplus labor (a.k.a cheap labor) will drop at alarmingly higher rates. This is called the Lewis Turning Point (named after modern economist William A. Lewis), and in fact the 2010 Chinese labor unrest heavily suggests that they have already hit it; real wages in surplus labor has doubled. If China doesn't take action and have some sort of economic reform, the lack of economic dynamism (labor-intensive industries to an innovative export economy) will cause China to stagnate. This is basically the point where China can become more like its neighboring countries, or more like the South American ones.

 

3. I don't understand how a global war would occur. So many people online throw around the acronym "WWIII" without even researching on the factors and reasons of war – claiming it's for power or for profit would hold a slight bit of truth but hardly tell the full story.

 

It's fairly possible a war of significant influence would happen, though, mostly in the Middle East. The powder keg of the present day is the Middle East – with a declining oil economy, which some countries almost completely rely on, along their aquifers inevitably drying out and causing regional water shortages, it's likely to escalate from the wars we have today into something even bigger.

 

China won't play a very significant role in these wars – they're more concerned with their economy than fighting in wars. That being said, the countries who are capable of instigating a war (and not getting immediately screwed by it) don't have much motivation to; just look at the civilian response when the U.S. and Europe invaded Iraq. Even Russia is going to struggle inciting their populace to war. Not to mention it's actually more profitable for the developed nations not to go to war anyways.

 

And no country, not even North Korea, is suicidal enough to launch their nuclear missiles. Ever. It's not the Cold War anymore.

 

4. Not going to happen, and you don't need a mass refugee movements to get water shortages anyway. The U.S. Southwest is already starting to experience one. We, along with many other developed countries, are really using a whole lot of water.

 

5. Um, no. Virtually no one is denying global warming. A minority of Republicans and I'm sure a few other politicians worldwide are (and even then, no one denies deforestation, pollution, and endangering of animal and plant life anyways), but definitely not half. Regardless, no country is ignoring the issue. The U.S. isn't continuing to go business as usual; it's actually pushing for renewable energy and cleaning up their mess.

 

The Arctic is losing a lot of ice, however; it's predicted to lose more than 75% of its sea ice and contribute further to greenhouse gas emissions. We still have time to save the polar bears, bu they are now being forced to migrate we are likely to lose more than half of its population by 2035. 5 degrees Fahrenheit (2.7 degrees Celsius) is a bit too much as well; we'll have a 3 degree increase (1.7 degrees Celsius), though. That's still a serious issue.

 

6. Um...what? This sounds more like something from a sci-fi movie.

 

8. It's not really a con, but the people behind Mars One are entrepreneurs, not scientists. They aren't trying to trick anymore, but I believe they are oversimplifying the difficulties of going to Mars. Lansdorp needs to learn a lot more before he can actually expect his program to succeed, and $6 billion is hardly enough for a one way trip. Either way, Mars One isn't going to go to Mars first.

 

9/10. Yet to see evidence for Australia's apparent resource depletion.

 

For number 6...it does exist. It's not sci fi. 

 

and china has already been calculated to run out of water by 2025. 30 if it is extremely smart about it and Australia has been on a never ending Rampant deforestation rush for over a hundred years now. There is no signs of it ever stopping or even slowing down at all and all efforts made by every group everywhere. 

 

Finally, because I don't want to write a whole lot. 

 

Number 8: Yeah, I guarrentee you that Mars one is a Farce. Its a fake, Maybe not by a group of teenagers, but its a farce none the less. 

They used a "popularity" contest to determine who was eligible for their program for craps sake. The entire initial process for selecting who was eligable to go was 1. Make a video on why you want to go to mars and who you are and why you are the best choice. 2. Everybody who is not even signed up for Mars one all votes on who they like the best. 

 

Popularity contest was how their initial "cast" of people were selected. With a little basic admin powers, you simply just alter the numbers so that the people involved in your "team" of con men are the ones everyone selected and keep up appearances by sending out an occasional email to people who donated or signed up to get future money from them and you have yourselves the worlds greatest scam in the history of mankind since the South Sea Bubble.

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For number 6...it does exist. It's not sci fi. 

and china has already been calculated to run out of water by 2025. 30 if it is extremely smart about it and Australia has been on a never ending Rampant deforestation rush for over a hundred years now. There is no signs of it ever stopping or even slowing down at all and all efforts made by every group everywhere. 

Finally, because I don't want to write a whole lot. 

Number 8: Yeah, I guarrentee you that Mars one is a Farce. Its a fake, Maybe not by a group of teenagers, but its a farce none the less. 

They used a "popularity" contest to determine who was eligible for their program for craps sake. The entire initial process for selecting who was eligable to go was 1. Make a video on why you want to go to mars and who you are and why you are the best choice. 2. Everybody who is not even signed up for Mars one all votes on who they like the best. 

 

Popularity contest was how their initial "cast" of people were selected. With a little basic admin powers, you simply just alter the numbers so that the people involved in your "team" of con men are the ones everyone selected and keep up appearances by sending out an occasional email to people who donated or signed up to get future money from them and you have yourselves the worlds greatest scam in the history of mankind since the South Sea Bubble.

The thing that was sci-fi to me wasn't the ebolapox (we've been experimenting with viral proteins for a while now), it's that you're suggesting Trump and other developed countries leaders are going to set off that disease, and your claim that Switzerland and Sweden are going to be the ones dealing with it is oddly specific (considering many other developed countries, even in Asia, has clearly demonstrated they can do the same – the Nordics and the Swiss aren't good at everything, just like everyone else ). While world overpopulation is a serious problem, we're not that ruthless enough to so obviously mass murder a bunch of people for "population control" (sounds like dystopian sci-fi to me), especially since the vast majority of the world population are in developing countries, not developed (who usually have slow growth rates).

 

China isn't going to run out, they just can't access their fresh water when most of it is polluted (mostly by decades of environmental neglect). Southern China can still hold off (still pretty polluted), but the northern half of China is so polluted and lacking in water that they will quickly face a warer shortage issue. Add on the fact that the Chinese government wants to redirect their rivers, which makes things worse (over the years they have destroyed many villages and towns just because of their redirection plan and other projects). At least they're finally cleaning up...hopefully.

 

 

Scam or not, Mars One is not going to succeed. Not even close, especially since their plans are so ill-prepared. I'll be more convinced if it was by private space companies that actually do have the right infrastructure for such a trip, but even SpaceX and Virgin Galactic have no plans for manned Mars missions.

 

I'm a bit curious about Australia though, especially since it's seen as the "Canada 2.0" by Americans ("Moving to Australia" isn't as popular of a term in the U.S. as "moving to Canada" but it's still there.)

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Romania might finally get a non-corrupt president?

 

Yes... i know its unrealistic... but still... maybe?

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ISIS is spreading like wildfire in the Middle East

Umm they are loosing ground if anything.

 

We have Russia teasing the U.S. by sending their jets really close to U.S. naval ships

Whenever the U.S parks it ships so close to Russia what do you expect to happen?

 

IDK and to be honest it is pointless to worry about it to much. The world is much better now then it has even been and I can only hope it will continue to get better. 

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By mid-January 2035 I'll be freakin 40 years old. I'll probably be visiting my aging parents a lot, reflecting on my life, perhaps I will have settled down with someone who gets me and we might even have good enough genes to produce some halfway-decent offspring. I hope I will have a better relationship with my younger brother, I hope that I will have accomplished some professional goals, and I hope that I can look back regret-free. I literally have no idea what I'll be doing in a year's time, or five year's time, much less twenty. I can always predict that I'm going to get up in the morning and do this and this and that, but as far as what state of mind I'm going to be in or what kind of formative event is going to take place, I might as well be feeling my way through a dark, windowless hallway with not even a nightlight to guide me to the bathroom.

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Umm they are loosing ground if anything.

How are they losing if they already committed two major terrorist attacks? Paris and Belgium. They've claimed responsibility to them. 

 

 

 

Whenever the U.S parks it ships so close to Russia what do you expect to happen?

The ships were in international waters so Russia still had no right to do this. The Putin administration is looking for trouble.  

 

Although maybe unlikely but I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. goes into another Civil War by 2035. Especially if we have 4 or 8 years of Trump as president. The Democrats and Republicans (and even within the parties themselves) are so divided with a lot of issues. You also have Southern states still promoting discrimination. In the end, the Democratic and Republican parties will probably crash and burn.

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The ships were in international waters so Russia still had no right to do this. The Putin administration is looking for trouble.

Think of it this way 3 miles, 20, or sometimes 200 miles off the coast depending on the circumstance. Lets say Russia puts a war ship 200 miles off the coast of Cali, what do you think would happen, I bet you the U.S would do a lot more then a fly by. That boat would be bombed to hell and back. 

 

 

 

Although maybe unlikely but I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. goes into another Civil War by 2035. Especially if we have 4 or 8 years of Trump as president. The Democrats and Republicans (and even within the parties themselves) are so divided with a lot of issues. You also have Southern states still promoting discrimination. In the end, the Democratic and Republican parties will probably crash and burn.

Unlikely is an understatement, more like highly improbable. However I do agree that at least the republican party will if not die change, in fact it already has, conservative republicanism is dead. But that will not cause a war. I am assuming you are talking about the "religious freedom bills" yeah no one is willing to kill over those, or a bathroom for that matter. You must remember it is election year, so everything gets a little more crazy. 

How are they losing if they already committed two major terrorist attacks? Paris and Belgium. They've claimed responsibility to them.

 

Terrorist attacks are not the same thing as winning a war. That war is a three front war meaning there are three groups all competing for power, and fighting against each other, it will be almost impossible for anyone of those groups including Isis to ever win due to that fact alone. It will end in a stalemate.

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In 2035, Brazil will look like current 2016 U.S.A... I hope. Hype!

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Think of it this way 3 miles, 20, or sometimes 200 miles off the coast depending on the circumstance. Lets say Russia puts a war ship 200 miles off the coast of Cali, what do you think would happen, I bet you the U.S would do a lot more then a fly by. That boat would be bombed to hell and back. 

 

The boat would be bombed if the U.S. wants an immediate war started. Russia flying the planes close to our ships is the closest thing they can do without provoking an immediate war. Still doesn't change the fact that Russia is still bullying the U.S. little by little. There is probably gonna be a war between the U.S. and Russia if both nations don't get their act together. 

 

 

 

Unlikely is an understatement, more like highly improbable. However I do agree that at least the republican party will if not die change, in fact it already has, conservative republicanism is dead. But that will not cause a war. I am assuming you are talking about the "religious freedom bills" yeah no one is willing to kill over those, or a bathroom for that matter. You must remember it is election year, so everything gets a little more crazy. 

The Democratic party is very much divided too along with the Republicans. I've talked to Sanders supporters who don't even like Clinton and won't vote for her this election should she get the nomination. Currently, none of the parties are favorable among the people. 45% of people view the Democratic party favorable while only 37% view the Republican party favorable. That's why we're seeing a rise of more libertarian and socialist ideologies with people. With the trend continuing, by 2035 there wouldn't be a Democratic and Republican party anymore. Also I think the "religious freedom bill" is just the start on what Conservative Southern lawmakers will pass as time goes on. Racism, division and hate is still very much alive in America.

 

 

 

Terrorist attacks are not the same thing as winning a war. That war is a three front war meaning there are three groups all competing for power, and fighting against each other, it will be almost impossible for anyone of those groups including Isis to ever win due to that fact alone. It will end in a stalemate.

 

And the stalemate is because world leaders didn't see ISIS as much of a problem originally. One thing I will say is that the Middle East will still have fighting by 2035. Any attempts of peace won't last long. It may or may not be ISIS (probably them still. They're not giving up the fight) by then but there is gonna be some extremist groups still lurking there.  

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The Democratic party is very much divided too along with the Republicans. I've talked to Sanders supporters who don't even like Clinton and won't vote for her this election should she get the nomination. Currently, none of the parties are favorable among the people. 45% of people view the Democratic party favorable while only 37% view the Republican party favorable. That's why we're seeing a rise of more libertarian and socialist ideologies with people. With the trend continuing, by 2035 there wouldn't be a Democratic and Republican party anymore. Also I think the "religious freedom bill" is just the start on what Conservative Southern lawmakers will pass as time goes on. Racism, division and hate is still very much alive in America.

Well this is because the people of the US are tired of their elections getting bought out. TBH I would not vote for Hillery, but once again these thing would not start a war. I refuse to speculate on what the lawmakers will go on to do as that is impossible to say one way or the other. Both the democrat and the republican party will change but it would be silly if they did not change by the year 2035, so this is to be expected.

 

 

And the stalemate is because world leaders didn't see ISIS as much of a problem originally. One thing I will say is that the Middle East will still have fighting by 2035. Any attempts of peace won't last long. It may or may not be ISIS (probably them still. They're not giving up the fight) by then but there is gonna be some extremist groups still lurking there.

That part of the world has always had problems for 1,000s of years. It has nothing to do with the US o Russia or anything, this is what happens when you have many different religions(and some extremist) who think the land belongs to them, you then through in some poverty and BAM you have a bad situation.

 

 

There is probably gonna be a war between the U.S. and Russia if both nations don't get their act together.

Once again unlikely Russia, has been in hot crap due to NATO and all that jazz. They don't really have the resources to do anything too bad to the US right now. Plus they are tied up with the middle east, it would be silly for them to start something else anytime soon. All of that is nothing more then the US and Russia tying to assert their power to put it nicely.

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The Democratic party is very much divided too along with the Republicans. I've talked to Sanders supporters who don't even like Clinton and won't vote for her this election should she get the nomination. Currently, none of the parties are favorable among the people. 45% of people view the Democratic party favorable while only 37% view the Republican party favorable. That's why we're seeing a rise of more libertarian and socialist ideologies with people. With the trend continuing, by 2035 there wouldn't be a Democratic and Republican party anymore. Also I think the "religious freedom bill" is just the start on what Conservative Southern lawmakers will pass as time goes on. Racism, division and hate is still very much alive in America.

 

And the stalemate is because world leaders didn't see ISIS as much of a problem originally. One thing I will say is that the Middle East will still have fighting by 2035. Any attempts of peace won't last long. It may or may not be ISIS (probably them still. They're not giving up the fight) by then but there is gonna be some extremist groups still lurking there.

 

The issue of racism is a lot murkier than you think ( http://www.ijreview.com/2014/04/133024-10-charts-show-racist-america-really/ ); there are many more factors to the issue. It's more evident that younger (and generally more liberal) generations view racism very negatively, however (this does not mean the conservative end or older generations are automatically racist), and the view in the "increase" in racism may have to do with simply being more aware or how blacks and Hispanics are generally more poorer and behind. That's just the tip of the iceberg, though racism is certainly disappearing from the U.S., even the South.

 

I won't talk too much about politicals, but the two parties aren't disappearing anytime soon. We talk too much about doomsday scenarios if Trump wins or Clinton wins or whatnot, and I can most certainly guarantee the U.S. or the political system is not going to collapse any time soon. We might expect political change, but not collapse. The Middle East's future really looks foggy, though; within a decade, their issue won't just be terrorists, it'll also be the lack of oil and water. Things are not looking good for them.

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Very negative. Here's why:

• We have Russia teasing the U.S. by sending their jets really close to U.S. naval ship

 

 

Out of all the negative things out there (and that you thought of), I think this is probably just barely past the "provocative" list. 

 

Now what I think

India, Ukraine, Afghanistan, POSSIBLY Nigeira fracture into multiple states through civil war or otherwise. Ukraine is already having a silent civil war as we speak., India is about as united as apples and oranges, and Afghanistan never had a stable system. Nigeria, now, is crusading through its troubles but not without getting a lot of scars.

 

 

Also I hope rubble doesn't collapse. It's been maintaining about 66 to a dollar, still double its value 2 years ago. It's not that a collapse is likely (it's not), it's that on the grand scale of things, history is unpredictable, but does show signs of teetering one way or the other. I think we're in for a ride here, ladies and gents. 0.4% GDP growth in '17 yeah baby

Edited May 5, 2016 by ARagY