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Unless there will be a dramatic shift to the left within the next 5-15 years, we'll see the breakdown of society and ecology as we know them
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Here are some of my predictions:
Late 2020s and 2030s:
We go past 2 degrees Celsius, which means that the Arctic is iceless in summer and animals like pollinators start to die off in droves.
Melting permafrost releases methane and accelerates warming.
The Amazon collapses, taking the climate, water, soil and biodiversity with it
Millions of refugees start to go north.
Climate change starts to bite the wealthy regions, with disasters, blackouts, diseases, and skyrocketing prices, killing hundreds of thousands, polarizing societies and increasing fascist and authoritarian tendencies.
Apartment blocks cost a 7 figure mortgage or 75 percent of minimum wages as rent.
Rural areas are even more depopulated and impoverished, as public transit, healthcare, and schools close and get cut, and businesses collapse.
2028 US presidential election candidates are Kamala Harris and Ron Desantis. Kamala wins. In 2032 it's Alexandria Ocasio Cortez vs Elon Musk, Musk wins. In 2036 it's Tim Walz vs Bill Gates, Gates wins.
First company towns appear, where workers aren't paid real money but sort of Monopoly money that isn't valid outside of company stores and towns.
The Mediterranean basin starts being a desert.
Cases of respiratory diseases skyrocket again due to smoke plumes from wildfires and industrial disasters.
Most popular jobs for men are deliveries and tutoring. For women they are OnlyFans and advertising stuff on social media as influencers.
A tight squeeze is felt in resource production as high concentration reservoirs of most resources, mostly rare earths, get sucked dry, and there's a failed late attempt to decarbonize.
In a hysterical attempt to slow down climate change, countries affected by climate change try geoengineering, mostly solar radiation management, which means spraying clouds to reflect sunlight. This doesn't mean the ecological breakdown slows, the opposite is true.
Similarly, desalination, Arctic and deep sea mining, and strengthening borders and coastal areas are booming, dividing people who can afford such stuff and are doing it, and those affected and those who can't afford them.
The Great Barrier Reef collapses. Another hotspot of biodiversity is gone.
Countries struggle to get retirement funds full as there's an increasing retiree-to-worker ratio.
2040s:
First resource wars erupt, over food, water, oil, and other resources. Hunger and diseases are everywhere.
The retirement crisis pushes most people into poverty.
Tens of millions of refugees flood the wealthy, northern regions, causing even more polarization and destabilization.
Resource production falls dramatically, causing prices to soar and economies to collapse.
Biodiversity is collapsing. Keystone and recognizable species aren't found outside of reserves, sanctuaries, zoos and private collections anymore.
Living in a shed or warehouse costs a 6 figure mortgage or 90 percent of minimum wage as rent.
Most cities become ghost towns due to climate change. This includes Dubai, Miami, New Delhi, and many others.
There's not enough topsoil to grow enough food for everybody.
Life as we know it stops being a thing for most people, as more and more damages are inflicted by climate change, everything dies, and billions of refugees flood the former wealthy regions, causing ever more destabilization and polarization.
2050s and 2060s:
We've blown past 3 degrees Celsius and so, hundreds of millions, if not billions, are dead from hunger, disease, war and migration.
Most of the Earth looks like Mad Max or Water World. London is flooded, most of Europe turned into a desert or a savannah.
2070s:
Global temperature anomaly rises over 4 degrees and starts declining, but decades too late. This does not mean the end of suffering though, just one cause less.
2080s:
Some communities recover, but it's far from a global recovery
This is a set of predictions for the next 60 years and what happens to society, economy, politics and ecology of this world. Unless lots of people mobilize and turn left in the next 5, 10, at most 15 years, this scenario will come true.
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