I'll take a crack:
1. Until Trump backs off on tariffs, which he will. The only question is how much pain we have to go through before he does.
2. If you look at it as a murder problem, it's going in the right direction on average. As we become more peaceful, and feel safer, the number of people who desire guns for self-defense will decline. In the short run, I expect bump stocks to be outlawed and the return of some kind of version of the 'Assault Weapons Ban'. Maybe widespread increases in minimum ages to buy firearms, or at least certain types of firearms; but I'm not sure a federal law requiring that would survive a court challenge. A sea change in attitude will do more than any enforceable legislation could, and I'm optimistic about that, though we're talking decades.
3. Improvements in energy and manufacturing technology will eventually make recycling trivial, to the point that we 'remake' old things into new ones rather than accumulating so much stuff. It may even be possible to have a solar-powered neighborhood, or even household, 'mini-factory' that you can put ingredients into to get the products you want, even food. Meeting our physical needs will be extremely cheap and will require fewer resources. Even then though, our population has to level off at some point to be sustainable.
4-5: I'll leave these to someone more knowledgeable.
6. This will require a technological solution as well, although my answer to 3. also reduces waste output in the first place. Perhaps I am too 'bright green' optimistic, but it's bright green or dark green, individual responsibility and current tech won't be enough to save us.
7. No, but it will become a minority position eventually, after increasing in developing regions. When they are more developed, religion will decline there too.
8-11. Uh huh.
1. Until Trump backs off on tariffs, which he will. The only question is how much pain we have to go through before he does.
2. If you look at it as a murder problem, it's going in the right direction on average. As we become more peaceful, and feel safer, the number of people who desire guns for self-defense will decline. In the short run, I expect bump stocks to be outlawed and the return of some kind of version of the 'Assault Weapons Ban'. Maybe widespread increases in minimum ages to buy firearms, or at least certain types of firearms; but I'm not sure a federal law requiring that would survive a court challenge. A sea change in attitude will do more than any enforceable legislation could, and I'm optimistic about that, though we're talking decades.
3. Improvements in energy and manufacturing technology will eventually make recycling trivial, to the point that we 'remake' old things into new ones rather than accumulating so much stuff. It may even be possible to have a solar-powered neighborhood, or even household, 'mini-factory' that you can put ingredients into to get the products you want, even food. Meeting our physical needs will be extremely cheap and will require fewer resources. Even then though, our population has to level off at some point to be sustainable.
4-5: I'll leave these to someone more knowledgeable.
6. This will require a technological solution as well, although my answer to 3. also reduces waste output in the first place. Perhaps I am too 'bright green' optimistic, but it's bright green or dark green, individual responsibility and current tech won't be enough to save us.
7. No, but it will become a minority position eventually, after increasing in developing regions. When they are more developed, religion will decline there too.
8-11. Uh huh.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
