1. The world population will be over 9 billion. Disease will be more common, as everybody will be physically closer to everyone else, and chronic food shortages may be the norm (although this has been debated).
2. We'll also have to start cutting down on our energy consumption: If humankind continues to use energy at the rate it does now, and population growth follows expected trends, we will need the equivalent of three earths to support ourselves by 2050. Which is, obviously, impossible.
3. As far as global warming goes, the Dead Sea will be almost completely dried up, nearly half of the Amazon rainforest will have been deforested, wildfires will spread like, umm, wildfire, and the polar ice caps will be only 60 percent the size they are now.
4. Also, rising temperatures mean that heat stress will place a significant strain on human labor productivity.
5. The majority of people will live in cities, which will be increasingly more integrated with nature and plants. It’ll be standard procedure for skyscrapers to have parks and sky gardens, for example, and buildings will be covered in vegetation designed to filter out pollutants and retain CO2.
6. Wars will involve not only land and sea, but space. Moon bases will play a crucial role in global conflicts; because the moon is essentially a massive plot of undeveloped land over which nobody has legal ownership. These bases will serve both to defend against attacks from other nations and to launch offensives.
7. Whites will be a minority in the United States. The U.S. population will be around 47 percent White, 29 percent Hispanic, 13 percent African-American, and 6 percent Asian by 2050.
8. Super hurricanes will become a regular occurrence, which will eventually lead to the permanent abandonment of New Orleans, Houston, and other cities on the Gulf Coast.
9. Equally terrifying, there will be a nationwide wine crisis in the U.S. as climate change renders traditional vine-producing areas unsuitable for grape production.
10. Air travel will be exponentially more awesome. When flights are under-booked, the seats will automatically shift and rearrange themselves to provide maximum comfort and space for travelers. Transparent walls will flood the cabin with natural light, and best of all, you’ll be able to get anywhere on the planet in under two and a half hours.
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