Planet News in 2025
One of the best ways to prevent a crisis from happening is to make projections about what will happen if nothing is done; if the present course of action is continued. Planet News 2025 brings you the stories of the future. This is not fiction. It is science fiction - only the science is true and thus the predictions must also be true if the variables have been accurately ascertained and fitted into a model. It is better to describe Planet News 2025 as science faction.
Energy Consumption in 2025
In 2025 energy consumption will increase by 50% from the present rate in 2012 ("Growing Demands for Energy," Mapping the Global Future - Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project). Despite improvements in energy efficiency the continued rate of growth of the Indian, Chinese, Brazilian and Russian economies will require a doubling of the current amount of energy consumed. The present small percentage of energy generated from renewable resources does not bode well for the environmental impact of doubling energy consumption.
World Population in 2025
By 2025 the world population will reach 7.9 at the current exponential growth (U.S. Census Bureau, "Total Midyear Population for the World: 1950-2050," International Data Base). In America the population will reach 350 million. Not only America but countries around the world will suffer serious urban overcrowding, shortages of housing (and consequent rises in house prices). There is likely to be an increase in the number at the bottom of societies that will cause increases in crime and a fast erosion of civil liberties as governments seek to enact draconian measures to counter the rising wave of crime.
It is also likely that the movement of people both through legal and illegal immigration will greatly increase as people from developing countries seek to go to developed countries with more employment opportunities and less dense populations. Scandinavia and Australia will be targeted in particular.
Water Scarcity
In 2007 one third of the world lived in areas identified as having a water shortage. By 2025 over half the world population (5 billion people) will suffer water shortages. This will lead to human disaster zones where many die of drought. The price of water will become so high that a certain percentage of the world population will not be able to afford clean water. Wars will be fought over fresh water supplies. The world will rush to bring out better desalination technology, and world leaders will have to fight corporations who seek to profit from the patents on this new desalination technology.
Although water conservation in the home (http://www.greeninteriordesign.info/water.html) will be an everyday part of life in 2025 the average person won’t have the luxury of taking long baths or showers every day. Only the very rich will be able to afford fresh water swimming pools.
The scarcity of water will also severely hamper the production of energy as without water cooling systems power plants cannot operate. Energy production will move to coastal regions where sea water can be used for cooling. This will be a double edged sword because with rising water levels due to climate change it will be harder to secure the power plants from sea encroachment.
Social Upheaval in 2025
By 2025 conditions will have deteriorated so much that social upheaval will happen across the developed world. Just as the Arab spring of 2011 saw north African dictatorships crumble under internal dissent and international action, so the supposed ‘democracies’ of the West will face open revolt against short-sightedness that has got their nation in the present parlous state. Militant green movements will replace Marxism as the ideology forcing change. This movement will seek to remove Wall Street lackeys from the corridors of the White House. Economic growth for the first time will be superseded in terms of priority by seeking to limit environmental health decline.
Greenhouse gases in 2025
By 2025 the permafrost will melt. This will release 190 gigatons of trapped greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This will signal the end of our window of opportunity to stop climate change. By 2025 temperatures around the world will rise by several degrees. This will result in certain areas of the world becoming uninhabitable. Formerly cold and unattractive areas such as northern Canada will become desirable places to live.
That is the news in brief for 2025. Read on to discover more about what will happen in 2025 if nothing is done now. Naturally, none of us want the predictions above to come true. The purpose of planet2025news.net is to make people think about what they can do now to make this website defunct in 2025, instead of a chillingly accurate forecast of death, destruction, unrest, shortages and misery.
As advances have come in the medical and chemical industries, the cosmetic and beauty industry has become somewhat akin the Wild West. Ingredients aren’t regulated, so it’s very possible for untested products to hit the shelves at the expense of eager consumers. Sites like the Skin Deep Cosmetics Database aim to educate consumers on the dangerous chemicals that lurk inside of their favorite cosmetics.
In 2025, however, things will be different. There won’t just be online databases that warn only the most interested of consumers about the dangers of chemicals in their favorite products. Many more government regulations will be in place by then that will ban companies from using carcinogenic ingredients in the products they produce. Although many of the government regulations that will be in place in 2025 will have a negative impact on the social and economic structure of the world, these regulations will have a positive impact on the health of citizens.
Some products that exist today will thrive in 2025. The products that will thrive are the ones produced by companies that are already aware of the dangers of chemicals in beauty products. Products like Aubrey Organics Shampoo, Nature’s Natural, and Mira hair oil will increase greatly in popularity as consumers are forced to abandon the dangerous products that they once (unknowingly) used.
Although there is much to fear in 2025, there are some things to look forward to as well. We have no choice but to be alive in that year, so it is important to look for the positives where they exist.
Posted: April 18th, 2012 under Resources.
By the year 2025 the travel industry will have changed considerably. At the moment (in 2012) the travel industry accounts for 5% of the total GDP of the world. This revenue goes to big travel companies but also to developing countries such as Thailand, India, Brazil and the Caribbean. A lot also goes to the second tier of the developed world such as Italy, Greece and Spain.
It is hard to make predictions about whether people will have more or less leisure time in the near future. Certainly the wave of money seems to have left the west coast of America and is cresting in China. Chinese employers are notorious, like their Japanese and Korean counterparts, for making their employees work 6 or 7 days a week and severely restricting public holidays. If China holds the economic reins in 2025 then it can be expected that the average length of holidays will decrease. However, it can be expected that those with lots of money will still go on foreign holidays. It is likely that high-end hotels and resorts in Koh Samui, the Bahamas and Italy will continue to do good business.
With the releasing of the green house gases caught in the perma-frost caused by the melting of the polar caps world average temperatures will rise. This will result in two outcomes. One, places like Fiji and the Maldives will be underwater and their tourist trade will vanish along with their islands. And secondly, countries that were formerly too cold to attract many tourists such as Scandinavia and Canada will see an upsurge in tourist numbers, especially from tourists traveling in their own country.
Finally, with dwindling supplies of petrol, energy costs will be higher. Plane tickets will cost more. Air-con will cost more. As fewer people can afford to go to the tropics, and as they become hotter their will be initially a price war. This competition will be most strongly felt among mid-range and budget places.
To sum up, it looks like less holidays in 2025. There will still be a travel industry, but there will be clear winners and losers.
Posted: March 28th, 2012 under Energy.
Tags: travel in 2025, energy, price wars, less holidays
