1. Being the cynic that I am the first round of predictions for Earth 2100 is pretty much how I see the United states specifically turning out. Of course that is taking into affect that we dont majorly change our way of life as a country. Due to massive population increases (baby boomers) we are reaping the negative affects from exhausting this worlds resources. Soon enough the west coast will be barren, and most people will migrate towards metropolitan areas. Thus allowing for deadly diseases (black plague) to spread rapidly and reduce the over population. It seems to be a natural way of life. More or less a protection the world has built in to keep it running for billions and billions of years. Instead of mere thousands.
I believe that most imperative change needed to be made to our country is to not continue towards urbanization. We need to embrace our rural roots, and live more off the land than off the fast/easy way of life. For instance in the times before fast food chains became as big as they are I believe the avg family at 3/4s less meat than we do today. Why is that? well because a town had to rely on a farmer to raise its stock then take it to the butcher to prepare. The fast food industry has streamlined this process by mass producing farm stock, and crops. Allowing them to sell food at competitive prices.
If we as a society start to rely less on urbanization, and start living off the land more I think there can be hope to survive for thousands of years as a country rather than a few hundred more.
2. See Chris' blog.
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