2006-12-09 03:40:55 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Yes, Bush will be gone by then.
2006-12-09 03:42:12 · answer #1 · answered by Buck Flair 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
50 years from now, the USA will be mostly desert. What is now the 'grain belt', producing wheat, maize, and soya, among other things, will have moved into Canada, as a consequence of climate change, and the total unwillingness of the US government (and most people) to give up the use of fossil fuels.
ALL port cities in the world will have flooded out (including Liverpool, where I live -- the British Isles won't be fit for human life in 50 years -- but that wasn't your question), and the Mississippi Delta, and all around the Great Lakes, and along major rivers. No New York, no Albany, no Buffalo, Rochester, Chicago, no Charleston, no Florida at all -- it's a sandbar, for heaven's sake -- no New Jersey, no Delaware, no Washington, D.C. (no loss...), no Michigan to speak of, no Louisiana at all, no East Texas, no Southern Mississippi, no Southern Alabama, no California (expect earthquake before climate-change, but the two together will take out most of the State, no Seattle, no Portland (OR, or ME)...
Never mind Puerto Rico, Hawaii, or the Aleutian Islands. They'll be flooded out completely.
No agricultural economy. South-Western States (AZ, UT, NM, NV, CO -- except at high elevations) too hot for habitation. Coastal States flooded out. Places like Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Idaho, Eastern Washington State, Eastern Oregon, crammed with refugees from the coasts, rivers, lakes, and superhot deserts.
No industrial economy -- machinery can only stand so much heat, or wet, before it becomes useless -- 50 years is not enough time for the people of the USA to get back on their feet.
HUGE migrations inland, up mountains, and Northward.
Central America has some pretty high ground, but it will be cut off from the USA by quite a lot of water. No El Paso, no Texarkana, also no loss...
The Rocky Mountains will have so little precipitation, that the runoff will not sustain life below what is now quite high altitude. No skiing tourism. In fact, no tourist industry at all.
On the up side, the USA is going to be so busy trying to put itself in order (as is everyone) that wont be time, interest, or budgets for wars.
Yeah, it's a grim prediction. It might NOT happen in 50 years. It will CERTAINLY happen within 100. What the USA (and most people) don't seem to get, is that global climate-change isn't something we can stop, or even slow down. It has ALREADY HAPPENED. Going carbon-neutral at 2358 hours is hardly going to stop the polar ice caps from melting. They've been KNOWN to be melting since I was at uni, in the early 1980s!
The glaciers of the Pyrenees and Mongolia are drying up. The Oceans are rising, at over a cm³ -- over every cm² of Ocean -- PER YEAR. That is a fxxk of a lot of fresh water, floating on the top of the world's Oceans. Our bad luck the very bottom of the global food chain exists in an excruciatingly narrow layer of salty ocean surface, which is getting pushed further and further from the Sun.
In 20 years, in Denver, CO, I saw our climate go from semi-desert, to full-desert.
Be afraid. Or move to Siberia. Now would be a good time.
NOWHERE will be a good place, let alone a 'great place' to live (as we know 'living' in 50 years).
The USA didn't sign the Kyoto Accords. Well, the joke's going to be on them...
2006-12-09 12:43:50 · answer #2 · answered by protectrikz 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If the USA keeps letting foreigners in and giving them more to get started, it will not be American any more. It will be Iranian, Mexican, Vietnam's, Japanese, Chinese, and all other foreign nations will be given money to start a business. While the people who are born here have to start from scratch. Well, I can look a CA. and Other states and see there are more foreigners, owning stores and business. Sad, they won't even let an American use their gas station bathroom. The Motels the foreigners own are hell wholes. NO I don't think America will be worth living in in fifty years. I'm glad there's not a chance in hell I'll still be here, since i was born in 1947 . Glad to know I'll not have to wittiness it. I hate real loud vibrating music, i hate, hate filled rap songs, and I hate foreigners coming here and getting thousands to get started, and not allowing the born and bred Americans use their business bathrooms. I hate illegals coming here getting food stamps and when you stand in line behind them they look at you like you're a pile of S***! The other day an illegal got drunk stole a car and, hit and killed a family of five. I guess it's bad enough if it's a born American doing that. But someone who is not even supposed to be here. I'm against the war in Iraq, I think America had more to worry about than getting even with Saddam. America need to look deep into itself and fix it. Build a electric wall around us and take care of it own. u may not like my answer, but i liked your question! One of the best questions I've read in a long while. Thanks.
2006-12-09 12:12:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think the USA will be a good place to live in 2 years.
2006-12-09 11:44:25 · answer #4 · answered by Loo 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The fact that I cannot bring myself to answer this at length is, I suppose, indicative of a certain amount of fear. It could be, but I certainly cannot guarantee it. People are becoming increasingly dependent on the government and that is certainly not a good thing, and it certainly has the potential to degrade the quality of life in America.
2006-12-09 11:44:37 · answer #5 · answered by DJL2 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When I think of some places now, I cannot help asking:
Do you think the USA are a great place to live now?
2006-12-09 12:35:15 · answer #6 · answered by saehli 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you like what you see in the USA right now...then yes
2006-12-09 11:43:00 · answer #7 · answered by snowhawk 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Definitely not. George Bush has put this country in debt so far (already spending 1 million dollars a minute in Iraq) that we, the peopple are going tho have to pay for it. This country is going to be drenched in poverty, a huge depression. If I were you, I would move to Canada.
2006-12-09 11:44:30 · answer #8 · answered by Conor MC 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If it still exists then NO. I believe we will either encounter a major nuclear disaster, earthquake or civil war within the next 50 years.
2006-12-09 11:42:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2006-12-09 11:42:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The way it is going, unless the UK comes to the rescue, the USA may be no more by then!
Charles "That Cheeky Lad"
2006-12-09 11:45:23 · answer #11 · answered by Charles-CeeJay_UK_ USA/CheekyLad 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋