I seriously think we are seeing the beginning of America seperating into two or three countries.

[airplaneman]

59. I see the following scenario happening.

The rich get richer and the rest of us keep sinking down. There is then 10 million people living in the streets with another 10 million seeing their fate to join them very soon and another 10 million that don't see any other fate but joining the rest on the streets. We will then see our own form of Syria, Egypt, Libya come to be as a quickly growing mass of people will have nothing to loose. We will have our own suicide bombers and terrorist and chaos. This will result in our own bloodshed and going into a period of chaos, death and destruction. The resulting government will not necessarily be any better but with a lot of people dead the pressure for the remaining resources will have diminished. We are also in overshoot and with global warming and water becoming more scarce the human population will peak and start its decline in the next 10 to 20 years. As a society we are becoming increasingly dysfunctional and are starting to look like we are incapable of coming to terms with what will be a serious decline for society as a whole. I do wish we really do wake up and start moving in the right direction but it seems to me that this is simply not happening. Maybe we will come to our senses as things get worse and worse but I really think we are in serious trouble and by 2100 there will be less than a billion people and still declining. I find it hard to believe the USA will break up and all will be well.
-Airplane