Anna B Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 We seem to be facing so many unprecedented challenges in the near and not so near future, that changes are coing thick and fast, but the politicians seem to be burying their heads in the sand, or certainly don't seem to be moving quick enough to meet them. Just for starters.. Online shopping is going to render the High Street irrelevant. What do we do with our Town centres? But is continuous consumerism sustainable anyway? Automation and robotics is going to bring unemployment. What new jobs are going to take up the slack? Do we need a 'Citizen's income'? Things like marriage and religion, arguably the foundations of community and family life for thousands of years, have gone out of fashion in little more than one generation. Is that important? The nature of relationships seems to be changing too, is that a good thing? Science is achieving great things, but is ethics keeping up. Are the advances going to be affordable to the average person? What do you think? What else should be taxing the minds of our long term planners? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 I know that things are a bit shakey at the moment but I still believe in "the west". The rise of the "BRICs" countries will be relatively short lived because the foundation they are built on is rotten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootsBooster Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 My opinion is that the world is always changing (and always has been), some embrace change and others fear it. There will be both good and bad changes for many people (if not everyone). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna B Posted March 5, 2018 Author Share Posted March 5, 2018 I know that things are a bit shakey at the moment but I still believe in "the west". The rise of the "BRICs" countries will be relatively short lived because the foundation they are built on is rotten. Sorry, I can't agree with this. First I don't think the rise of the BRIC countries will be short lived, the foundations might not be good but they are slowly getting themselves sorted. Nor do I think it should be short lived. Why do we assume we are entitled to a better standard of living than they are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo-atkinson Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 I think we are heading for socio-economic disaster and will be right for the taking by the Americans who will see us as weak. The Americans idea of a trade deal is they sell it and we buy it. We will be a convenient Airbase for their european operations and a market place for their goods. The Yanks will achieve without firing a shot what The Nazis failed to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna B Posted March 5, 2018 Author Share Posted March 5, 2018 I think we are heading for socio-economic disaster and will be right for the taking by the Americans who will see us as weak. The Americans idea of a trade deal is they sell it and we buy it. We will be a convenient Airbase for their european operations and a market place for their goods. The Yanks will achieve without firing a shot what The Nazis failed to do. With the Americans on one side of the Atlantic and Germany (EU) on the other, do you ever wonder why we bothered to bankrupt ourselves fighting a second world war... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geared Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 We've been dealing with all of those points for quite a long time, some much longer than others. Yet people are still in work, the town centre is still full of people, marriage and religion are still popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 Overall, bad, certainly long term. More and more of the planet will be changed irreversibly to allow as many humans as possible to populate it, up to the point it no longer can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin-H Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 Overall, bad, certainly long term. More and more of the planet will be changed irreversibly to allow as many humans as possible to populate it, up to the point it no longer can. The rate of global population growth has already decreased quite significantly. The wealthier a country gets, the lower population growth tends to be. Global population is expected to level off at about 11 billion by 2100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halibut Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 The rate of global population growth has already decreased quite significantly. The wealthier a country gets, the lower population growth tends to be. Global population is expected to level off at about 11 billion by 2100. Global warming however, once the tundra melts and releases massive quantities of CO2, isn't expected to stop anytime soon, and will render ever increasing areas of the world unliveable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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