I think the climate is going to change much faster than any models predict, like 3-4x faster, because we went past the tipping point about 30 years ago.
Phytoplankton populations will crash out in the next 10 years and the marine food chain will collapse.
Extreme wether patterns are going to completely disrupt food production, which will cause mass starvation and a global immigration/refugee crisis.
In the U.S., the terrified of everything elderly, and right wing will go for less freedom and more authoritative government control. They will also secede more control to corporations as a way of avoiding “big government”, effectively handing over power special interests and the ultra wealthy.
Healthcare will however become nationalized because the system as it stands is out of control and therE is no way to reign it in, so costs will keep spiraling up until the system breaks.
Marijuana will get legalized in most states, and the percentage of THC will start to get capped.
Designer CRIsPR “therapies” will become popular.
The U.S. college system have a major event, costs are spiraling out of control, and the colleges have no way to stop the cost growth, students are becoming more accustomed to online classes, in the next 10 years there will be a mass realignment of the U.S. college system, just like banking, healthcare. A lot of closures, mergers and partnerships. A commoditization of higher education, which will be good for some majors, like STEM, and really bad for majors that are more “subjective”. I also think we’ll see incorporation of what is seen as traditional “trade school” skills. Learning is learning, and is the schools can make it profitable, “why not?”.
Phytoplankton populations are not going to crash. Extreme weather is not going to cause mass starvation. There's no scientific basis for either of these things happening.
Furthermore, you don't believe they are going to happen. If you did believe this, it would be absurd to talk about a "major event" regarding the US college system - "mergers and partnerships", "commoditization", etc. Really? Really?? What happened to the major event of the students starving to death?
What happened is that you don't actually believe the stuff you say about climate change. You just think it's cool and sophisticated to say that you know that change will happen 3-4x faster than any scientifically-based model says. Because whatever...
Possibly ocean acidification could damage the cell walls of diatoms, which make up a fair fraction of phytoplankton? But I don't see how that could have been locked in 30 years ago.
Phytoplankton populations will crash out in the next 10 years and the marine food chain will collapse.
Extreme wether patterns are going to completely disrupt food production, which will cause mass starvation and a global immigration/refugee crisis.
In the U.S., the terrified of everything elderly, and right wing will go for less freedom and more authoritative government control. They will also secede more control to corporations as a way of avoiding “big government”, effectively handing over power special interests and the ultra wealthy.
Healthcare will however become nationalized because the system as it stands is out of control and therE is no way to reign it in, so costs will keep spiraling up until the system breaks.
Marijuana will get legalized in most states, and the percentage of THC will start to get capped.
Designer CRIsPR “therapies” will become popular.
The U.S. college system have a major event, costs are spiraling out of control, and the colleges have no way to stop the cost growth, students are becoming more accustomed to online classes, in the next 10 years there will be a mass realignment of the U.S. college system, just like banking, healthcare. A lot of closures, mergers and partnerships. A commoditization of higher education, which will be good for some majors, like STEM, and really bad for majors that are more “subjective”. I also think we’ll see incorporation of what is seen as traditional “trade school” skills. Learning is learning, and is the schools can make it profitable, “why not?”.