Our world of over 8 billion people could embrace sustainable economics aided by alternative lifestyles and alternative energy. Instead there has been lots of mostly rightwing politics bringing us things like the anti gay laws in Senigal and Camaroon west Africa plus Donald Trump and more cutoff of forgien aid.
There are borders closing to refugees around the world as politics is affected by flows of refugees that have overwhelmed local infrastructures, housing and resources. Now we have war with blockades of the Straights of Hormuz leading to a worldwide fertilizer shortage among other things. Famine is likely on the increase around the world.
One of my senarios of the future is a significant increase in the deathrate possibly leading to a measurable decline in world population. This, stabalizing population versus choices for sustainable lifestyles and economics. Ironically rightwingers often talk about the sanctity of life when they focus only on abortion. Other killing and famine seems to matter less.
In the longrun, I have a senario where the world eventually recovers from the period of famine and comes to its sences; like learning the hard way. Eventually we could embrace more sustainable lifestyles, values and economics. Eventually there could be a period of population stability and rebuilding of economies, but in the meantime world famine could be so large as to overshadow any famine in recent times.
The third world would, as usual, is hit hardest by this partial dieoff of the human race.
Of course this is just one senario I think about. It's not inevitable. It's one somewhat bleak senario, but at least it's not the extinction of the human race or even the total collapse of modern, technological society. It's just what some might call a correction.
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