permabear

Thank goodness none of the predictions of mass doom and gloom has yet come to fruition. The author better hope that doom and gloom predictions remain unfulfilled because all it takes is one being right. Personally I've been an economic doom and gloomer for many years after seeing all the debt excess build up over the decades. Mark down my prediction from here. The future is going to be worse economically than the past. That means that the financial crisis of 2008 was only a precursor of what is yet to come. Longer term I think that Erlich's concerns were right on the mark, just very premature. Climate change is the real deal and population growth is contributing massively to climate change. Climate change is one of those slowly developing catastrophes that will take generations to play out. But with the droughts and fires and hurricanes and tornadoes growing more pervasive and destructive by the year, it is only time before the skeptics cave and say whoops, we are wrong. Ultimately climate change is going to be much worse than current predictions postulate. There will be mass migrations northward as the southern climates of the world become uninhabitable. Hundreds of millions will die off. Eventually the seas will rise tens of feet and all of the coastlines that house man today will be gone under the sea. The oceans will be so acidified that much of the sea life existing today will be gone. Climate change will change life for future generations beyond anything we can imagine today. Climate change catastrophes can only play out if humans don't kill ourselves off with a nuclear winter first. Nuclear weapons proliferation is a more immediate threat than climate change. Pakistan is building nukes like there's no tomorrow. Iran next on the fanatic list of countries moving towards nuclear weapons. What is going to stop the next Hitler from using these dastardly devices on humanity? Doomsayers may not have been right to this point in human history. But personally I'm not very confident one of these predictions is going to turn out to become reality. I know climate change will. The question is can human beings adapt in time?