Techno narcissist fantasies about human progress will continue to burst
Ray kurzweil will die if he isn't dead already
Probably about a quarter to a third of countries will be failed states
The South African Rand will go to zero if it didn't already
Top countries still USA and China
Hype about india as a major power will burst as it gets wrecked by climate
Idiocracy continues as more of the smarts opt out of reproduction whether by choice or due to financial stress of supporting the dumbs via taxation
Real estate in major coastal mega cities will start to plunge and people will start doing more "back to the land"
People increasingly ignore authorities of all kinds , social cohesion erodes globally
Coal, oil, and gas go nowhere and are still a major part of the world energy system if it's even still functional
Birth rates fall faster than anyone expected (good evidence this is already happening )
Nothing like the farce concept of "net zero" will occur during this decade and very unlikely to happen thereafter
Commodity prices will remain elevated
Race will start to be much less of a deal in the USA with one caveat I could see hostility to Chinese immigration which was not a part of the lived experience for those of us born in the 90s, no one really cared about China then during the Pax Americana times. In europe racial issues could get much worse given the Islamic component of migration which tends to be very destabilizing.
We will see several typhoons in this decade that put Katrina or harvey to shame in terms of economic damage
Increasing LGBT acceptance globally except in Middle East , Middle East is going to keep being the shithole it always has been for very simple reasons including foreign interference
Aliens won't be found or find us
Traditional family continues to erode because the millennial age group can't afford to start them and also more of them are waking up to the fact it's not the best idea
We may see the total implosion of the Philippines as a functioning country and unified political entity
Japan will be forced to open its doors to migrant hordes and its location as one of the few tolerable countries to live will end gradually
There will be many more "Edward snowdens" and not just from the US
US may invade Venezuela for oil but staging a pretext for this will be very rough
Canadian tar sands still in production
US may consider going after the oil shale out west given the market price
Fantasies about "inclusive globalization" will not be realized. It will still be a global apartheid system where the rich go and do whatever they want while the global poor are trafficked and exploited across borders
Cancer won't be cured
There will be a lot of last laughs had in this decade by the preppers , maybe not in the context of a global implosion but locally many preppers will be having "I told you so" moments
Christianity will go virtually extinct in Europe