12-27-2019, 03:55 PM
(12-23-2019, 08:29 AM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(12-23-2019, 04:03 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: If you are curious about the future, you can browse the timeline on Orion's Arm:
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b2afc424975
Or maybe this one:
https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentu...entury.htm
And all of this is speculation, because noone can know the future beyond trivial statements like "there will be cold days in December 2200".
From S&H perspective, a lot depends on who wins the current 4T. If the Left wins, we will have something like "environmental emergency" high. If the Nationalists win, they won't be able to establish a proper 1T because the elites despise them. This would indicate a blank period followed by another 4T or a 2T with a lot of Civic themes like the Solidarity awakening in 1980s Poland.
How would the environmental emergency be a high if the people who think there's an environmental emergency want to drastically lower the living standards?
It won't be necessary to lower living standards, unless your idea of "living" is useless excess waste. The 1T and even the late 4T will be economic boom times and prosperity, for the most part. The conversion to green energy will be a great boon to the economy, and it won't require reduction of living standards. CA has high living standards (unless you can't afford the high cost of housing, which is due to high demand), but it is perhaps the most energy-efficient state in the USA. Greater efficiency is not lower living standards. CA is more prosperous than Texas, which uses the most energy.