THE FUTURE IN ONE PAGE
The pieces of the puzzle are below. Assembling them properly to accurately get a glimpse of the future is the trick.
Human overpopulation (if the global human population doubles as it did in my lifetime, it is going to be chaos)
Limited natural resources (water, land, top soil, food, energy, etc)
Violence begets violence: Armies and weapons of mass destruction are no longer sufficient to win wars where the enemy is not in uniform. Witness Vietnam, Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, among others. Violence as an answer to conflict has never been a more useless solution.
Sectarian religious furor: no violence is more brutal than violence fueled by
religious intolerance.
Rising disparity of wealth distribution. This is hardly new in history and the Have-nots (who have nothing to lose) always win over the Haves (who have so much to defend)
The internet and media devices enable angry groups to communicate daily without ever meeting in any physical structure, plus give potential terrorists all the instructions needed how to make bombs and reek havoc of some sort.
Greed and Things and Money---in a human overpopulated globe and limited resources, this is the fuel which drives the flames.
Family values: The notion that one's responsibility is limited pretty much to 'family' creates a circle-the-wagons mentality and distrust and intolerance of diversity.
Climate change: Whole populations will be forced to move and be welcomed nowhere.
When these are the pieces of the puzzle, the completed picture can hardly be expected to be pretty or up-lifting. The good news is that God’s evolutionary process has always progressed even after setbacks of mammoth proportions.
