I'm gonna go out on a limb here and make some wild-eyed predictions for the year 2050:
1. The earth will still be spinning on it's axis.
2. So called "global warming" will not result in our grandchildren surfing on newly formed beaches in Terre Haute, Indiana.
3. Most of the worlds forests will still be, well, forests.
4. Human beings, who have adapted and survived ecological change for thousands if not millions of years will continue to adapt and survive.
Could someone post the idiotic Club of Rome predictions (i.e., the world will be out of oil by 1985, of copper by 1991, etc.) as well as the "futurist" Paul Erdman who made all sorts of bizarre predictions for things that never happened. I can remember the incompetent Robert McNamara ay(wish I could forget him!) when he was head of the World Bank in 1977 stating that overpopulation was as much a threat to the earth as nuclear war!! Most nations are no longer at the population replacement level.