50 Predictions For The Next Thirty Years People Think Have A 99% Chance Of Becoming A Reality

Glenn, medical studies are definitive, masks ARE effective, though not 100% obviously. At worst they reduce viral load. At best they catch almost all of the sneeze thet would have infected you.

I thought COVID was going to be "Captiain Trips". Thank God it wasn't. But yeah, a virus along the level of "Captain Trips" is what scares me

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After the plague of the 1300s, there was a massive improvement in living conditions

This was based on no agriculture improvement, which is why this is not true. We have 1.5 times more food than we need, we just are terrible at moving it to the poorest because it is a commodity

I'd love to see the population back down to 3 billion, but the problems you listed aren't a result of limited resources. They're a result of politics and finance. A really bad pandemic may help a lot, if it's biased towards killing the stupid people.

It's endemic to the American Southwest. A few people get it every year there.

It was 117 degrees (47.22 C) today in Phoenix. Unprecedented for this time of year

And before it even made landfall the deniers were out in force, insisting that this is all perfectly normal and nothing has changed.

Sorry to hear that many others didn't, but I'm glad you made it out alive, Freya.

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Tampa, FL here. No power and broken trees. I fear a direct hit here will decimate at least 10 counties in the future.

Same, a lot of my family to the west part of NC aren't alright though, they're fine physically but they have no power or water, and not a lot of food, and they can't leave since one of them is an emergency worker.

Same here, rest in peace to the victims of Hurricane Helene.

Glad to hear it. The Line Fire here flared up again yesterday, so it's kinda smoky around the valleys. We'll happily take any water you want to send!

Good luck with Milton....stay safe!

I know an artist in Asheville whose studio was completely destroyed by Helene and he's been without power and water for days. And I know someone who lives close to Biltmore (and works there too) whose apartment complex got flooded (thankfully not her specific apartment), including her vehicle, and she and her roommate went a couple of days without power too. It's been really rough for all of them, and I hate that it didn't focus its energy instead on a particular property in Florida.

i live in florida but i am lucky to say no damage to my town

There's hope, it's going slow, but they are making progress. Source: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alzheimers-disease/in-depth/alzheimers-treatments/art-20047780#:~:text=Experts%20are%20cautious%20but%20hopeful,may%20affect%20the%20disease%20process.

I've seen several studies that show that Alzheimer's is actually Type 3 Diabetes, so hopefully they'll be able to manage it better by treating it from that aspect.

Yup, welcome to BP, where random words get censored. Like P A W N shop. And d***s even the prescription kind.

That is why I read it as dlks

Charlie Brooker once did a bit, where he took a politician's speech and everytime they said an -ing word, it would be bleeped. So your brain would fill in a different word.

me too :-(

Resource wars are happening now, and aren't anything new. The devil of it is that humanity as a whole does have what it takes to provide food and water for everyone - it's just that doing so takes a degree of planning and forethought that those in charge don't seem to be interested in applying. (the bottom line comes down to access to fresh water - but you see, there's plenty of water here on Earth, and desalination works. You just need to build the electricity production, desalination plants, and pipelines/canals/whatnot. It's an awful lot cheaper than fighting the wars which are happening now and are only going to get worse.)

Is there life on Mars.

Then they really will charge for the air you breathe

The fact that I trust my government to be better at this (American) is simply terrifying

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It is better than the ECO terrorists having control like now.

Florida also prohibited the word “sustainable” from being used in any official documents.

And the GOP wants to eliminate NOAA because they provide information proving that climate change is real.

Never not-surprised of of the stupidity of politicians there..

The "Don't Look Up" Act.