Posted on 02/05/2020 10:09:27 AM PST by bananaman22
The year 2020 could emerge as the start of the era of relative global chaos or major upheaval. It is the era we have been anticipating, as the impact of core population decline meets economic dislocation, and security and structural uncertainty.
Changes in the fundamental sociological framework of global society, due to the end of the population growth cycle - and with it the end of the economic growth cycle based on expanding market size - were beginning to become evident by the beginning of 2020. It was apparent that 2020 was likely to see a major evolution in this transformation.
The three “inevitable” trends which had been promoted in recent decades - the “inevitable” rise of the People’s Republic of China; the “inevitable” decline of the United States of America; and the “inevitable” consolidation of the European Union into a strategic superpower — had all, by 2020, retreated into the swamps of vainglory.
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I may have jumped the gun, but this is one of the reasons I left Seattle for my “hobby farm” in rural KY. We have two streams. :)
Happy days are here again...please pass the cyanide...
The economy is cyclical.
“Rural Kentucky”, God’s country.
I call it “The Garden of Eden, but with more chiggers.” :)
It’s an election year so the left needs a crisis.
Great read. This guy penetrates the smoke and noise (like “climate change” hysteria) to analyze what’s really happening in the world.
DOOM PORN
Pure Speculation...… Don’t B.S. the B.S.’ers!
Yeah we’ll be fine.
Some people need a crisis or potential one to keep them alive, almost as if they’re hoping for it.
I notice older people seem to thrive off of the idea more. Perhaps because their good times are coming to an end it makes them feel better that all are.
I want a great country and stability for the younger generation whether I’m here or not.
Global crisis? More like global hysteria.
I’m good without one.
Thanks for posting. This is an important article. No one can predict the future, but this is indeed a thoughtful article about future scenarios based upon current trends.
“It’s an election year so the left needs a crisis.’
Will the Wuhan Corona Virus pandemic do?
That site is all leftists. Read their forums.
I call coronavirus bull. The author is talking about his butt (coronavirus are spread via feces). He is spreading feces.
The real China just show itself on how it handle the coronvirus crisis. I see a decline in China as companies realize China holds high risk.
First: Many US companies lost profit in the trade war, were the companies were heavy invested in having their product product in China
Second: Those same companies will lose more money as the coronvirus crisis continues on.
Companies like to make money. If the big companies learnt their lesson: they will diversify where there product is manufacture (most likely in other countries with cheap labor) in the future to keep the high profits coming.
You need more fire ants. No lie. We let our yard ‘go’ one summer because we were too busy to do the fire ant treatment thing. We had more fire ant mounds than normal, but no chiggers, seed ticks and very few fleas on the doggos.
-- Yogi Berra
The US continues to be a nation divided at levels of polarization not seen since 1860. This is likely to worsen until (and beyond) the November 3, 2020, Presidential and Congressional elections...-PJOf primary importance, then, is whether the US misses great opportunities in 2020 and possibly fails to start to regain unity in 2021, and whether the US can itself regain cohesion at all. It is not inconceivable that the US could see greater moves toward secession by some states, or toward violence between urban-controlled state structures against nationalist elements.
In the US, it is the society-level schism which could work profoundly against the success of the state, as opposed to the PRC where it is the state which is now moving (again) against society.
The collapsing will occur in China, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Russia, Gaza, the West Bank, California and New York. What will arise out of the ashes will be much better than before.
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