[Misc] In a paragraph, what’s this world going to look like in 2050?

[Hamilton]

I’m going to go against the grain.

It’s going to look much the same as it does today but with a few more electric gadgets in it. People will still turn up at classic car events to marvel at old style combustion engines, but we’ll all be running on renewables, and there will still be despots in the world seeking to spoil everything for everyone, but we’ll trundle on. The saddest thing will be football, with the same teams still winning the big trophies.

 

[chickens]

It's a complete mess now, dread to think what life will be like then.

But I think that plays into the hands of people like the modern Conservative Party who want you to believe that things can only get worse, all politicians are the same, and managed decline is the best that can be achieved.

It’s an absolute nonsense. Positive progress is absolutely achievable, if not easy, but we do have to close our ears to the naysayers and let them crack on with complaining about how dreadful everything is while building something better.

I think currently the complete absence of hope in our outlook is what makes life feel so bleak for so many of us.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

People will *still* be complaining about the transport links to the Amex (or whatever it will be called then).

 

[Mackenzie]

Not much will change, but we live under water.

 

[chickens]

I’m going to go against the grain.

It’s going to look much the same as it does today but with a few more electric gadgets in it. People will still turn up at classic car events to marvel at old style combustion engines, but we’ll all be running on renewables, and there will still be despots in the world seeking to spoil everything for everyone, but we’ll trundle on. The saddest thing will be football, with the same teams still winning the big trophies.

I’m just imagining kids gagging at the smell of a diesel engine and refusing to believe the owner when they say that people used to claim that diesel engines were better than an electric powertrain.

 

[East Staffs Gull]

Theychester City will win the EPL ahead of Monarchs Park Rangers.

 

[Commander]

So, about that idea that "those who don't have the money to cool their environment" will just perish. Do you think that the millions turning to billions of people who will soon be living in uninhabitable conditions will just accept their fate? Or will the natural human survival instinct kick in, meaning an exodus of unimaginable proportion heading to cooler climates? Unfortunately, I'm not sure they will be greeted with a warm welcome.

This is why I cannot fathom why climate change denial is a right-wing thing. It makes no sense, it should be the other way around. Right-wingers should be going mad about climate change saying we need to sort this out or we are going to have mass, uncontrollable immigration in the next few decades! It makes no sense to me why they aren’t.

 

[maltaseagull]

Whatever it turns out to be, the Tories will be blamed!

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Compare 1998 with now, same sort of time difference. The green belt will have been built on, roads will be far more congested, hardly any pubs left, shopping centres vacant and converted to housing and more people working remotely leading to city centre offices being empty.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Is your spot in the bar with the haves or the have-nots?

Good question. If still around then hopefully with the have nots, having sufficiently feathered my nest to be able to choose between the two.

 

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[raymondo]

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Exactly...it will look very similar to now but with even more luxury apartments built in cool city centers for the mega rich (visited the refurbed Battersea Power station yesterday ) and the 50 mile line city thingy will have been built in the desert somewhere and residents will still be experiencing snagging, water supply and subsidence issues.
Oh, and the Albion will have won the Europa league at some point .

 

[The Rattler]

Palace will have still managed to avoid relegation. And James Milner will (probably) have retired.

 

[fly high]

According to someone doom sayers the planet will be molten lava.

 

[Justice]

How many generations have said what will the world look like in… I watched an oldish film the other day apparently in 2024 we are all driving space cars live in some high tech apartment and eat some sort of plastic food dispensed from a machine in the kitchen all controlled via the government.

 

[Mr Bridger]

Hopefully 2-0 up against The Wolves and queuing up for a pie.

 

[Pavilionaire]

The one thing you can guarantee is that the Israelis and Palestinians will still be firing rockets at one another.

 

[Hamilton]

This is why I cannot fathom why climate change denial is a right-wing thing. It makes no sense, it should be the other way around. Right-wingers should be going mad about climate change saying we need to sort this out or we are going to have mass, uncontrollable immigration in the next few decades! It makes no sense to me why they aren’t.

Maybe they’re just all stupid? Just a thought.

 

[pb21]

The good:
Probably some significant breakthroughs in medical treatments of cancer and other diseases.
Hopefully a viable move away from the burning of FF for power (nuclear, renewable etc.)

The bad:
Between now and 2050 I’d be surprised if the global economy doesn’t massively feck up, exact ramifications unknown, but not good.
Until the above happens more and more financial inequality.
The above exacerbated by effects of climate change.

The ugly:
Both the above possibly leading to global conflict, or the very real threat of it.
Everton and palace both just about avoiding relegation from the PL.

The unknown:
What AI will mean for all the above.

 

[pb21]

This is why I cannot fathom why climate change denial is a right-wing thing. It makes no sense, it should be the other way around. Right-wingers should be going mad about climate change saying we need to sort this out or we are going to have mass, uncontrollable immigration in the next few decades! It makes no sense to me why they aren’t.

Well, amongst other reasons, economic right-wing thinking doesn’t necessarily preclude immigration, arguably the opposite, but it is opposed to intergovernmental state based intervention in the market.