Posted on 11/22/2008 3:25:27 PM PST by Bokababe
(CBS/AP) Analysts gazing into what amounts to an intelligence-based crystal ball see a future world marked by dwindling resources, more people and diminished power for the United States, as CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports.
The grim assessment, entitled "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World", comes from the National Intelligence Council, an independent government body. The report concludes that by 2025, "The U.S. will remain the single most important actor but will be less dominant."
There'll be challenges on all fronts. Climate changes from global warming will lead to shortages of food and water in dozens of countries. That, coupled with a projected population spike of 1.2 billion people worldwide could lead to wars over increasingly scarce resources.
Thomas Fingar, Chairman of the National Intelligence Council predicts water shortages, disruptions to delicate agricultural patterns, continued unrest in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan and the continued emergence of China as America's greatest economic rival.
"China will have the world's second largest economy," the report says, "and will be a leading military power."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
I have doubts about there being a planet in 2025, at least I won’t be living on it...GM pensions will give out by then. ;)
Obama will take care of that.
U.S. power will fade from noon on January 20, 2009 through January 20, 2013.
Fortunately, everyone who has predicted the future in the past has been wrong.
That’s one trend that will probably continue.
CBS? LMAO!!!
Pfftt!
How to immediately discredit a "news" story.
That I will give you, but this Intelligence Report has been described in a number of other media outlets.
Fixed
For anyone really interested, check out an old book written by Harrison Brown titled “ The Challenge of Man’s Future”. If we don’t dumb ourselves down to far we will do just fine.
They where saying all that in the 1976 campaign.
1-20-13 must be when the first Female President is sworn in.
Um, unless someone intends to take our land, or a natural disaster of never before seen destruction occurs, we are going to be ok. We have enough varied areas to grow just about anything we need. Sure, it’d be tough for a few years, and we would struggle, but it’s a dream and a wish that we are just going to go away.
Of course, I can’t be so certain that America won’t be so dumb as to vote itself away...
At first I was upset then I read how Global warming plays a part in it and laughed. It doesn’t even exist so the entire article was written by some goof.
All these negative headlines will disappear on January 20th, and suddenly it will be “Morning in America” again.
“The world senses our power, and they seek the life essence. We don’t avoid them them ... but we do deny them our essence.”
General Jack Tumblindice
I recall back in the 1980’s being taught that the oil supply would be depleted by 2000 and that the situation in urban areas would be reminiscent of something out of Soylent Green. This hysterical article reads very similar. The “end is near” types never go out of fashion. It’s disturbing that mainstream media outlets report this sort of thing as news.
There’s always the 5-10 top cities getting nuked possibility still. The islamics haven’t just given up for good.
When they get to be able to do it, that’ll be the end.
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