Look? What we have left for our Children

Prophecy: to predict the future.

It would be good if we could see into the future, but, then there wouldn’t be things like book makers, lottery or  football pools.  (Remember them; they are still going).  So what will happen in the future?  A good question you might ask.  Well I for one can’t tell you or I would be a rich men now.

We have to look at what is going on all around us and maybe we can have an educated guess to what our future foretells.  You could go and have your Tarot Cards or palms read, but what will they tell you, assuming you find someone who can more than claim to foretell your future this way.

If you are around my age then your life-like mine is pretty well mapped out and we are starting our slippery road to our alternate life. (What ever that means ). What will happen around us will not really have much of an impact on our short existence that remains. That is unless this wonderful government (which I didn’t vote for: it didn’t take a psychic to see what will happen when they took over) bleed us all dry. But lets not go there…yet…lol

We see all the doom and gloom programs on the Discovery channels, some shows are now shown on main stream channels as well these days, so we are aware that the worst doom and gloom prediction is Global Warming.  Yes that old chestnut. but, have you really sat and thought what it will mean to our children and their children.  You know the ones that come round at the weekend and cause riots.

They say that the water levels globally will rise with all the ice that’s melting.

Well it doesn’t take a genius to work that one out.  But they can’t agree at what level this rise will take.  Some say a couple of feet while others say up to 15 meters (what ever that is)  I think it depends on who is paying the boffins their wages.  All this is due to happen somewhere around 2050.  I don’t think we will wake up one morning to find the beach has moved to our back garden on Jan 1 2050.  I wouldn’t recommend using the London underground in a few years time, unless you wear a driving suit.

No, it’s the legacy that the world will give our children and children’s children that I am trying to high-light here.   What will it mean to them.  Will it bring world starvation, world wars, ironically enough, a water shortage in parts of the world?   Will it pull counties together or, more likely, cause world wars?  Will strong governments help the weaker ones or just ignore them?

I ask these questions in the hope that someone out there has the answers.  Please if you do let me have next weeks lotto numbers too.