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Why The Next 20 Years Will Be Completely Unlike The Last 20
Let’s pull back for a moment and look at the Really Big Picture:
We’re facing a future in which the economic growth the world has enjoyed over the past century can no longer continue.
Over-indebtedness, mal-investment, cronyism, manipulation, and misguided policymaking have all certainly contributed to our current predicament. But the principal causes are much bigger. And much harder to address.
Simply put, we’re entering an era when it’s becoming increasingly difficult to obtain the resources we need — at the cost we need — to power the economic activity we need.
The trends of resource depletion, escalating mining & drilling costs, species die-offs, emptying aquifers, declining energy yields and the like are increasingly pitting the world’s 7 billion people (soon to be 9 billion before 2050) against each other in competition for the remaining biomass and minerals that make industry possible.
As a result, massive changes to our way of life are in store. No matter where each of us lives.
This brand-new video shines a bright light on these trends and the risks we face as a result. But it also offers hope. If we take action now, while there’s still time, there’s much we can do not only to reduce our personal vulnerability to these threats, but also to step into this new future with newfound optimism:
For the best viewing experience, watch the below video in hi-definition (HD) and in expanded screen mode
The above video is a condensation of the 4.5-hour long full Crash Course video series. The data and analysis underlying the material represent over a decade of intensive research and study. Over that decade, its forecasts have proved increasingly validated by events like the collapse of the housing bubble in 2007, the 2008 credit crisis and the anemic ‘recovery’ since, oil prices persistently over $100 per barrel, the five-fold rise in gold prices, and many other symptoms of an unsustainable world economy reaching its failure point. Sadly, the risks warned of in this video are very real, and they are arriving now.
Once you’ve finished watching the video, please share it with those whom you think would most benefit from it. The more people we wake up to its message, the more hands we’ll have supporting us today in planning for tomorrow.
With thanks,
Chris Martenson PhD & Adam Taggart
http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/85873/why-next-20-years-will-completely-unlike-last-20
The demographics point to a lower population in 2050. Many countries are experiencing zero population growth. Birth control, abortion, homosexuality taboos dismissed, females in business and commercial enterprise are all factors in a lower birth rate. People are living longer due to better medical care and ample food stocks but they are not being replaced. Political tweaking also has had a effect on declining populations, China’s one child rule is creating havoc with more then 200 million males without mates. Religious dogma that frowned upon birth control have all but evaporated in the first and 2nd worlds and the third world is close behind. Populations will be in decline till the turn of the next century and then some. After the baby boom generation joins their parents in the afterlife, young children will be somewhat rare a far cry from the mid to late 20th century population bulge.