If America Dies — Dead in a Decade
The end started a long time ago. Pixabay
What would signify the end, and what would it look like?
by Tessa Schlesinger -Ahead of the curve
Ten years isn’t far away, and the sad truth is that a lot can happen in ten years. This is especially so in a world fractured by economics and politics, and driven by climate change to an extinction level event.
So let’s look at the likely possibilities — perhaps probabilities.
There are elections in 2024, 2028, and 2032. That’s three elections, and as we all know, the outcome of elections depends on two things — the mood of the people, and the words of the presidential campaigners.
We also know, for a fact, that things are going to get a lot worse. This is not ideology. It’s not pie in the sky. It’s straight extrapolation from what we already know. So here’s what we can bet on.
There are going to be an increasing number of fires due to the rising heat, and as already determined by scientists, whatever is driving climate change, its’ getting faster and faster. These fires are going to get hotter and hotter, and they will burn fiercer and fiercer. It’s inevitable that a major city will burn. Note that fires burn at night, that they can spread at high speeds due to winds, and that the more fires there are, the greater the drain on resources. Sometimes, there will be simply too much happening at the same time to deal with any one event effectively.
There are going to be more and more 20 inch rainfalls — dams of water falling out of the sky in unexpected places. This has nothing to do with any weather pattern. It simply has to do with water rising up to meet the clouds on a hot day somewhere else. Then those clouds driven in any direction by a wind, and eventually when the clouds become too full of water, dropping down somewhere, drowning all below.
As the world heats up, the polar vortexes at the poles will become weaker due to heat. It is the cold that keeps them contained and in place geographically. When the poles become warmer, the vortexes expand, and they can expand quite a bit south. When they hit, many places will not be prepared. It is not unreasonable to think that many will freeze to death.
One other interesting thing is that the events on the surface of the earth can trigger things like earthquakes and volcanic activity.
There is a limit to how much financial relief any government can give those who suffer from natural disasters. The president will no longer be able to ‘release funds to the disaster area.’ He simply won’t have them to give. If he does give them, they may affect congressional salaries. There can be no greater demotivation to do something than the loss of one’s salary — especially the loss of a political salary. Consequently, as these natural disasters increase during the next decade, there will be an increasing number of people who have lost their homes, their jobs, their income, and more.
Bridges and dams will collapse. It has already been long established in America that these are much in need of repair work. It only takes a couple of these natural events to put them permanently out of commission. Consider Libya, then take a long hard look at what a lack of investment in the infrastructure can cost, and then ask yourself, Why the fuck the government thinks that paying for $10 billion jets for the military is more important. How many people will become homeless or die in the next decade?
Scientists are also 100% sure that there will be another pandemic — many more pandemics. This situation arises for a number of reasons. Covid 19 was a zoonotic disease — one derived from our food sources (animals). Another source will be the cutting down of prime jungle/rainforest, and the third will be the melting of the permafrost. We cannot see these little things. They are invisible. We will breathe them in and we will touch them, and then they will consume us. As yet, countries are still not prepared for the next outbreak. Worse, there are those people who are so damaged that they must blame everything on ‘the others.’ They have no capacity to examine themselves. Vaccinations are only effective when 96% of the population have them. That is how you wipe out a disease — either that or lockdown. Of course, Americans have now become so outraged that their ‘freedoms’ might be impacted that they cannot see the wood for the trees. More Americans died from Covid 19 than any other nation on earth, and more will die from the next serious pandemic.
Consider the economic situation. All economies are systems of production and distribution. Someone produces and someone gets the end product. That can be accomplished in many different ways. The modern way is for people to buy the product. I can think of no country where the product is not made for profit (Yes, even in China, and China has more dollar billionaires than the rest of the world put together). As the shareholders’ desire for more and more profit increases, so prices will increase. The price increases will be driven by growing shortages, but mostly by the ownership class who want every last penny. The vast majority of humanity will begin to experience woes that they never anticipated. They will send out a desperate cry for help.
Politically, trust in both the Democratic and the Republican parties will be at an all time low. It would not be too far fetched for independent candidates to gain strong interest. Somewhere, in this circus, there will be a man who will promise the sun, the moon, and the stars. People will be desperate to believe, and they will elect them. For reasons beyond me, people are prone to believing rosy words. Listen to this speech from V for Vendetta. I see so much truth in it.
Globally, the rest of the world will also face many challenges. It’s likely that our current world order will no longer exist. The dollar will have lost its position as the reserve currency, and other nations will be trading with each other quite successfully. The likelihood is that in a decade India and Mexico will have taken leading positions. Africa will have increased its collective power, essentially because the continent is now beginning to work together, and they are a little tired of being paid less than market price for their natural wealth. Sometimes one doesn’t see things until they hit you in the face. The bottom line is that as America as been a nation of importers for many decades now, they will find with the loss of the reserve currency, the price of importing goods will have gone up. In addition, as their manufacturing sectors are nowhere near what it takes to supply a nation, the country will become a lot poorer. American imports will switch from China to Mexico. Many Americans will migrate to Mexico — ironic. The issue will be finding climate-safe geographical locations in Mexico.
The billionaire class will finally realize that they are affected by climate change as well. Consequently, they will begin to invest in geo-engineering, finally giving up the idiocy of inhabiting Mars and the rest of the solar system. There will be nobody to stop their daft experiments, and by 2040, they could have caused an event that lead us further along the road to extinction. With that event, guillotines may begin to seek an echo of French Revolutionary tactics. However, it may well be too late for mankind. That said, This is about 10 years down the road — not 2040.
Crime and violence will rise rapidly in the States. Empty homes of the rich will be commandeered by an increasing number of people who have no homes. Police and other law enforcement entities will have their hands full in other areas.
There will also be steady migration towards the north — Great Lakes area as people begin to look for relief from the heat. The friendliness of the American people will begin to disappear as trust is eroded. Survival will become the number one essential. Oprah and other self-help gurus will begin to find that articles telling you how to work ten hours a week and earn $10k a month will have lost their glitter.
There will be areas where there is no phone or internet contact. Radio will, increasingly, become a necessity. Those who live off the grid may discover just how much technology enabled them to do so. They might also find that floods and fire are not selective in whether they destroy the good or the bad.
My bet is that in a decade, the States will have lost its international position, destroyed by its lack of care for its people, its lack of investment in its infrastructure, an increasing number of natural disasters, and the progress of other countries.