What will be the world's problems in 50 years?

[SlowwHand]

If the USA was run by the majority of ACS posters, I'd agree.
This place isn't indicative of the USA though.

[Bosh]

I predict that all of Oerdin's predictions will turn out to be wrong.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Bosh
I predict that all of Oerdin's predictions will turn out to be wrong.

Yeah, I'm willing to bet on it, too. Oerdin, if your predictions don't come true by 2056, I get to pick your avatar, OK?

[KrazyHorse]

Canada is a tropical paradise. The rest of the world is either underwater or uninhabitably hot.

There are no problems.

[Harry Tuttle]

Originally posted by Oerdin
50 years from now; my predictions:

America will have declined so much that few will wonder if they were ever a major power. The religious fanatics will continue to block scientific advances and ruin the education of children and as a result Americans are among the worst educated people in the former west.

France celibrates Islam Day or the day that the majority of the population became muslim. Islamic militants practically run the country.

There is no longer an Israel. The Jews don't breed fast enough while the Arabs never stop breeding and as a result the Arabs become the majority and vote to have the country annex by Palistine.

India is wondering how to feed it's 2.5 billion people; an increase of 250% in just 50 years.

China went democratic about 10 years ago but immediately their became major problems. All the various ethnic, linguistic, and cultural groups started to demand autonomy and when the central government bulked they pushed for independence. There are now a half dozen states where the unified multiethnic empire used to be.

Europe is more united but still not reformed so that they are little better then a gaggle where each state has a veto. There doesn't appear to be any means to fix the whole mess.

I think that in 50 years the UN will run the world as it nearly does now with its black helicopters circling every major city in the world. Homosexuals will ruin the morality of this country by introducing gay marriage and ever tighter pants onto the population. Interior design will become the primary occupation in the United States. Anti-religious zealots will continue to wreck our schools by imposing their anti-god rhetoric on the children of our nation and relegate our kids to atheistic boobs who garner their hopes and dreams in the latest George Clooney film.

Europe will continue to allow Islamists to establish ghettos in its major cities leading to more race riots throughout the latter part of the 21st century. The EU will pass another 50,000 laws regarding the naming of cheese.

France will continue to be run by a bunch of wheenies.

Israel will continue to covet their tiny sliver of land. Palestinians will continue to covet their tiny sliver of land.

India will become a superpower, but will occasionally suffer a few million deaths from disease, bad plumbing, terrible storms, and bad Indian cooking.

China will realize that they have an 80-20 men to woman ratio and will be to focused on finding dates to worry about anything else.

[Cort Haus]

Why do Canadians hate the rest of us so much?

[KrazyHorse]

Duh? You aren't Canadian.

[Whoha]

the next world war which will dwarf every previous war in numbers of dead,which is generally how things turn out.

[BeBMan]

In 50 yrs (or so) is WWIII. After that they build the warpship, make contact to hot Vulcan chicks, create the federation of planets where you don't need money anymore, except when dealing with the Ferengi. /teh geekiness!

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Duh? You aren't Canadian.

Duh? Night follows day.

[VetLegion]

I'd like a WWIII on two conditions:

1) not in Europe
2) no nukes
3) HDTV coverage

I said two? OK, there can be nukes then.

[Terra Nullius]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Why do Canadians hate the rest of us so much?

Who you callin' "us," Gus?

[BeBMan]

In 50 yrs smaller EU members like Canada and Russia will complain that the entire union is just result of a Greek-Finnish conspiracy for world dominance!

[Odin]

1. Global Warming
2. Oil supply depletion
3. preventing a nanotech-caused distaster (a "gray goo" scenario)

[LordShiva]

I will be 70 years old, and, being super-rich, will buy my new girlfriend an island for her 25th birthday. This will be a problem for the world as the inhabitants of the island will need to be relocated.