What will happen and what will not in 2012+

[Taverner]

What will not Happen:

- This will not be the end of the world
- There will be no polar shift
- There will be no super-tsunami that wipes out all coastal cities
- We will not devolve into full-on Civil war
- We will not balance the budget
- We will not lose the Senate
- We will not do anything productive about climate change
- We will not do anything about the dangers of overpopulation creeping up on us
- We will not solve the problems our schools face
- The HCR will not be changed or nullified
- The PATRIOT act will not be nullified, changed or even discussed
- Jobs will not come back
- Al Queda will not have an attack as sucessful as 9/11 in 2012, or any year after. Al Queda is pretty much dead by now and most likely so is Bin Laden.


What will Happen:

- Obama will squeak by
- The loss of you constitutional rights, stripped away from you by the PATRIOT act, will be more and more visible.
- More and more ice shelves will collapse into the ocean
- More and more methane will be loosed into the atmosphere from Siberia
- The Social Security fund will be pretty much empty, if not already
- Banks will continue to close, eventually coalescing into one huge superbank, that, without competition, will be able to do whatever they want (even more than today)
- Events like the Tuscon massacre will be more and more commonplace
- Gold will still be a shitty investment

[cutlassmama]

1. Tend to agree~

[vim876]

2. Well...

Why don't we just all go and off ourselves, then?

[JuniperLea]

3. Only if we can have a really big party first...

And get monstrously high.

Wait... that might change our minds. Ah hell... party on!

[Taverner]

11. Things never get better or worse, they just get different

[DCKit]

4. Good examples, but odds are you're wrong on one or two items in both categories.

If nothing else, 2012 will prove to be interesting (times).

[Taverner]

10. Oh, Totally

If I get 25% right, most would call me prescient

Remember - this is just one person's prognostication on 'stuff'

[LLStarks]

5. "Events like the Tuscon massacre will be more and more commonplace" - wat

Explain your reasoning.

[Taverner]

9. Violence against "the government" has been increasing year by year

So - by those statistics I think this will be common

[RegieRocker]

6. When you wave your hands over your crystal ball do

you touch it or keep hands inches away from the surface?

[Taverner]

8. Neither. I shove it up my arse

:)

[lonestarnot]

12. Well then how did you see all that then?

[Taverner]

13. Silly rabbit, my head's up there with it!

[Exultant Democracy]

7. The danger of overpopulation is way overblown. Birth rates across the world are plummeting

even in the third world.

Rapid urbanization and the rising tide of female empowerment both socially and economically has lead to a situation where we are probably looking at a population crash.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/27/peoplequake-population-fred-pearce-review

[Taverner]

14. Despite this, overpopulation is still a ticking time bomb

It affects all factors of society and even a small uptick could have catastrophic consequences.