mchaza said:
I was thinking today about whats going to happen at around 2050-2100 period, and i tried to think of the most logical thing that could happen during that time, so here it is. Also post what you think will happen.
Okay around 2040-2050 there will be an resource crisis, massive price hikes will occur arcoss the globe and war will erupt between nations to aquire resources, an example would be USA demanding Australia not to supply china or anyone else with coal (which can be produced into oil), Australia being US bitch will agree prompting china to get agressive and invade. War will occur in this region and will most likely occur across the globe with miltiary European nations invading african-asian nations for resources and Russia and China agressively expanding there boarders to gain more resources. India and Pakistan will nuke each other into obilivon.
There are a few things wrong with this:
- You can make oil from coal, yes, but only one country in the world - South Africa - does it
- I highly doubt that oil will still be our main method of electricity generation then, and if we're just using it for petrol, reserves will last much longer than that. Long enough to be replaced by hydrogen.
- Australia would never agree to something so ridiculous
- China is not going to invade Australia under any circumstances.
- There are other methods of obtaining coal.
Around 2050-2070 will be the global food crisis, Fish stocks will go down, food supplies are dissapearing and floods and doughts and desertification has consumed much farmland combined with urban areas. food riots will cripple nations and force many into miltary rule and cival war will errupt between government supporters trying to bring peace and low class rebels who want all the food hoarded with ration distribution to be distributed to the people.
Possible, I will admit. Do bear in mind, though, that nothing like this has ever happened in the entirety of human history, and there have been many droughts and famines. Besides, at one point or another, world population will stagnate. I don't see this grand food crisis happening.
2070-2100: What would occur after this would be the racial divide, people group themselves with people they can relate to and trust them more, so during the food riot chaos goverments and miltary will break down and people will group in there own tribes of there own race. WIth global migration and cultural mixing, tribes like this would form all over nations. The tribes each desperate for food would attack and destroy others to get there food and this will continue.
I would think that by that point, racism would be pretty much gone. If grouping happened, it would be by nationality. Why should you trust someone of your own race more than anyone else? Stalin and Pol Pot terrorised the people of their own race.
Since most of the good farm land has been destroyed continual genocide between tribes and stavation combined with recent wars and chaos would of reduced population by around 2/3.
Continual genocide? Genocide implies that the victims cannot fight back, but you seem to be describing a massive war.
2100- : currently in the global warming debate and climate change on the side were people would say "The earth will just fix it self", why you may argue that, in fact they are right, with the only way earth wouldn't fix it self as the most extreme (global nuking, metroid strike, moon is destroyed etc etc). I believe that over time people will continue to decline in numbers, global population would reach around <500 million, that the tribes will become primative over time while still retaining modern technology will live in small isolated communities for 100s if not 1000s of years while the earth recovers.
The earth recovers? From what? What have we done to the Earth? We've done a lot to each other and ourselves, admittedly, but we've barely touched the ball of rock, iron and magma beneath us. It could recover from our "enormous impact" within a century - go look at Enslaved
That all could happen or an Ice age will occur killing all.
This is just silly. Ice Ages don't just randomly happen. They take several hundred years to begin and require specific winds and water currents and so on. Solar minimums do not cause ice ages.
anyways What you think would happen?
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