The State of the World in the 22nd century

                                             

                  What I believe the world will look like and what I want the world to look like in the 22nd century are two VERY different things.
              In the world I would like to have in one-hundred years is one of peace and renewability. Countries world-wide are prospering, green energy has filled the empty hole that oil has left behind. The environment has become front and centre in the world's priorities; the Earth is now beginning to heal and global warming has slowed and/or started to reverse itself. Diseases will never go away, but hopefully with the advancement of technology, cures are easier to discover and mass produce. The population has stopped rapidly growing and has evened out, easing the strain on resources and space.  Racial and gender equality has advanced tremendously and has levelled the playing field for jobs and education.
       Pretty much everything is on the up swing and improving in some sense, this is the world I'd love to have my grandchildren grow up in...but i genuinely don't believe this will happen whatsoever.


             The reality I think the human race is destined for, is much darker than the one mentioned above. I think that with the current strain on the worlds resources and the ever-increasing global population, the fight for oil and fresh water will become a harsh reality. Oil and water will be bought up by the wealthiest countries in the world and the unfortunate countries that can't afford the two resources...will either go to war for water and oil, or starve industrially and physically. With the war for resources at it's peak; I think that the more radical countries such as North Korea, Saudi Arabia and China will resort to all-out nuclear war; devastating the world. Billions will die as result of the initial bombs and also the nuclear fallout and winter that will follow. Earth will become an irradiated hell-hole and only the select few who can afford to go into nuclear fallout shelters and underground bunkers will survive and possibly have the chance to repopulate the earth; but the world will never be the same.

     Obviously I don't want this to become reality, but by the way the world is run and how any helpful, progressive idea is shot down by short-sighted, small-minded people who only care about one thing: money, I don't see any long-term positive life for all of us.

                -Tyler