I'm reprinting here what Zoron just posted in the comments of the World Prediction Page so that comments can remain open longer.
Zoron has been taking some time off, to re-arm and refuel, and get reorganised, plus medical treatment. The gap space has been useful. I have been walking the local beaches here, and pondering. (Deeply).
The World crisis is getting worse.
Overlapping global issues:
Such as climate change, (now in runaway),
Collapsing food supply . (caused by agri-business and relentless population increase.)
Collapsing soil fertility. (just 60 Global harvests left, before soil fertility collapses below the survival level.
population bulge crisis. (approaching 8 billion by about 2030 at the latest. Even at slowest rate, it will be 10 billion by 2070, Food limit, (7 billion, reached several years ago)
Collapse of eco-sphere . and biosphere, (so many holes shot in it by mega-corporations and agri-business, plus fossil fuel peak oilsurge)
Planet now in first part of the “Climate flip” where runaway Greenhouse effect will unleash the mega-storms and events. (apocalyptic, and biblical in scale.)
Global political and economic crisis. (not all bad, the Third World is in transition, will defeat the Globalists, whose present series of wars have not eliminated resistance to them. (but will get worse.)
Global major shift in alliances, international organisations and groups, (G7, G5, G20, etc. Plus the new “G”, of all those that are not in the other “G’s”. They are functioning now, internationally, at UN level, and in the international organisations, as quasi-political parties, in the international Forums. A proto-planetary Government is taking shape. But it may not be in time.
The impact of technology in the next 20 years, (now in its own “Runaway Mode”.) There will be a massive (Silent) impact, from the discovery of a “New physics”, which unveils the core of the phenomena seen by pioneers like Nicola Tesla, which has been long suppressed. The new physics will lead to a “Techno-Surge” utterly unparalleled in Human history. The new developments will produce the opportunities for the abolition of fossil fuels, and absolutely clean energy. It leads, eventually, to starships, exploration, and the “Breakout-stage” of Humanity. (our neighbours and observers await with some trepidation). But probably too late, due to the “Turning oil tanker syndrome” of climate change, eco-collapse, etc, that we are in. ,It is a race now, between Human efforts to destroy ourselves, and Human’s who are trying to stop this. It will be a very close run thing. This race will be run over the next 30 years. By 2050, We will see the outcome.
The forces (Of evil) raised presently against the rest of the Human race, seem unstoppable. But Gandhi,dared to use the most dangerous weapon of all. Peace. He was one man. yet he set in train a set of events that toppled the World’s largest Empire. (Where is the vast British Empire now?). Today, there are a million Gandhi’s. (it is called the internet, and the Web. It has hatched and created what Marx called “The world mind”. This world mind is now inhabited by a million Gandhi’s, who urge on tens of millions of others, a vast Gandhian army of peace, hidden in a billion cyber-spaces. We will win, and “They” will lose. As H.G. wells, the great Protean science fiction writer said: “I have seen the future, and it works”. But will it arrive fast enough?….that is our task here, to predict, to warn, to advise, along with all the others like us, Like those in Phillip K. Dick’s great Sci-fi novel, we are the Men and women, in the High Castle.
Zoron's vision is less than encouraging. I would expect the world's fish stocks to collapse sooner rather than later - and they feed hundreds of millions of people, especially in Asia. The world seems intent on depleting the ocean's capacity beyond the breaking point and that will put incredible pressure on agriculture to make up the difference.
My youngest is engaged to be married next year and neither of them want children. While my wife is disappointed, I don't blame them. I wouldn't have children at this point in human history either if I were in their shoes.
Regarding the food supply dwindling that's why I've been keen on starting my own little garden. I know it's not possible to grow everything I need but it would supplement for shortages.
Thanks Zoron for sharing your insights, it does help! We can only hope that the best outcome happens.
Also regarding food supply, Melissa started a thread here to share best practices and future possibilities for solving the impending food crisis. I have seen in my mind's eye, miles and miles of greenhouses in Canada to grow food in the future - indoor climate-controlled growing. Here's a TED talk on computer farms that Melissa posted. It's pretty uplifting. She also posted another article.
Looks like Zoron has company. This cheery article
(The Uninhabitable Earth - Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. By David Wallace-Wells.)
also predicts global famine (and mass extinction, mass migration like the world has never seen, etc.)
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html
Many in the climate community are saying that article is way too pessimistic. But it's definitely scary. Many will suffer and already are suffering of that there is no doubt.
Paul - when the time is right, maybe talk to your kids about adopting a child. I wouldn't reproduce in this world as it is now either, in fact I never did, I am an adoptive mom, and while there have been some challenges, I've always taken comfort in the fact that I've been able to give a good life to a soul who wouldn't have had it otherwise, and to a body that would have been here consuming resources anyway.
It is interesting that you used a Philip K. Dick metaphor. I was thinking about how much the current political administration is to Radio Free Albemuth's premise. I would love to get better V.A.L.I.S. reception. Now, it is said that his V.A.L.I.S. books were autobiographical. The President Fremont, I am sure, is supposed to reflect Nixon however, next to the group that is in there, I think Nixon was a piker.
Laura,
My friends and I talk about how we have entered an alternate universe after the election. I hadn't thought of The Man in the High Castle and wrong timeline. I do agree something is off. Concerning food shortages. I am concerned about that too. My husband and I are building a sustainable home that includes an attached greenhouse. I am doing what I can to prepare my family for the future.