Climate chaos, ocean acidification, continued exponential growth of consumption & population, loss of global dimming, clathrate gun explosion, meandering jet-stream causing frequent super storms on the same level as hurricane Katrina, catastrophic sea level rise, extreme food & water shortages, many sections of the Earth becoming uninhabitable either because of rising seas or increased temps causing hundreds of millions of people across the globe (especially along the equator in places like North Africa & Bangladesh) to be displaced and become refugees/homeless pariahs as a result, this in turn (along with the ever worsening excesses of Capitalism) will feed the rising tide of fascism we currently see today potentially causing another Nazi-like authoritarian regime to take power, more ostracization of the mentally ill & austerity on social services, more overall misery & depression in society, more conflicts over dwindling resources, ever higher risks of a nuclear exchange, the eventual collapse of modern civilization and most likely the death of all complex life on the planet as temps rise to something resembling the P-Tr extinction event (or "The Great Dying", as it is known). My bets are that the only lifeforms that'll still be kicking by the end of this century are cockroaches, bacteria/microbes, and tubeworms that exist around deep sea hydro-thermal vents.
I've posted about this sort of thing before in more detail here (https://sanctioned-suicide.net/threads/is-intelligence-a-curse.1315/#post-15850), just in case anyone's curious for more info. The video below also covers a lot of good ground on what we can expect to see happen as time marches on into the grim future that's ahead of us.
Say goodbye to Social Security benefits and say hello to "work until you die."
Overpopulation allows corporations to pay low wages due to high supply of workers and scarcity of jobs. Author of "Poor Dad Rich Dad" explains how saving money is a loser's game. The inflation rate is growing while wages are stagnant. The interest rates you earn from banks are a joke.
The U.S. is $21 Trillion dollars in debt and continuously growing. The economy will inevitably collapse in the near future according to economy experts. Don't live in the U.S.? It will still devastate the global economy.
Spot on. It's impossible to indicate the exact date & time of when it's exactly going to happen, but, as you said yourself, the fact that it's going to occur at some point soon is an absolute guarantee. The financial speculation on Wall St. is just as high, if not higher, than it was back in 2008. The same factors that were in play back then (what with bad loans being made & how that intertwined with the insanity of the derivatives market) are in full force today. What's more, not a single banker or Wall St. slimeball ever went to jail over 2008 (unless you're in Iceland) and all the costs & consequences from their disgusting, heartless greed that ruined the lives of millions were, instead, shifted on to the backs of the public & the working poor. So of course those same scumfucks are back at the trough like the soulless swine they are, trying to gorge themselves as much as they possibly can before the whole thing falls apart again. This time however, the knock on effects both socially & environmentally will be quite severe. Quantitative easing (the US government printing money at the Federal Reserve to bail out the banks at virtually 0% interest) won't work this time due to running the risk of hyper-inflation (at least that's my guess, anyway). We'll probably see a "bail-in", actually (the banks seizing the deposited funds of everyone who currently has money there, in order to keep themselves afloat). In the midst of such a reckoning, along with the incalculable anger & rage that will well up from the betrayed & forgotten of society (the 90% basically), I can't help, but imagine that some very scary motherfuckers (the kind that would make the "dreaded" Trump seem like a lame puppy by comparison) will be doing their absolute damnedest to seize power where ever it is that they can. Just as Hitler himself seized power during the instability of the Weimar Republic (Germany post WWI, capitalist turf war that it was), due to the rage the people felt, rightfully so, at an inept government that couldn't meet their most basic needs, mostly because of the insane debts that were put on Germany after the conflict which allowed capitalists to hollow out the country to their heart's content at the cost of basic public welfare. The people cried out for a stongman to set things right and to return them to some mythical "golden age" and so along came Hitler with his modified freikorps (which would later become the SS) and the people, desperate & broken as they were, hailed him as their champion. He also had the full support of the business class both domestically & abroad (especially in the US, coincidentally enough), since, naturally, police state authoritarianism could never hurt their profits, whereas socialism & worker ownership most assuredly would. Capitalism has, and will always, turn to fascism in moments of extreme crisis, so as to both secure the wealth of the privileged and keep the filthy, unwashed rabble in line with whatever force necessary. Personally speaking, being a suicidally depressed hikikomori in such a world completely dependent on both his parents & the state through medical disability payments, certainly wouldn't bode well. Thankfully though, I don't live in the US. Otherwise, I'd be pretty damned worried, to be honest. I agree with you however that the US economy imploding in on itself will cause disastrous effects pretty much everywhere, given how the rotten tentacles of finance are wormed together in a giant rotting mound of "too big to fail" putridness. Thanks to all the neoliberal policies that have come to pass in the last few decades from the likes of Bill Clinton in the form of NAFTA, the US economy essentially
IS the global economy and will take, or at least try to take, everything down with it as it falls into history's compost bin. Highly recommend the video below for a complete breakdown on the subject.
