The mighty USA, gone within the next decade? That’s the bold prediction from Tessa Schlesinger.

I’m not going to say she’s right about that, but I’m not going to say she’s wrong either. My gut feeling is there are still too many variables to know for sure what will happen. It is possible, however, that things might break as badly as she is forecasting here…
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Ten years isn’t far away, and the sad truth is that a lot can happen in ten years. This is especially so in a world fractured by economics and politics, and driven by climate change to an extinction level event.

We know, for a fact, that things are going to get a lot worse. This is not ideology. It’s not pie in the sky. It’s straight extrapolation from what we already know. So here’s what we can bet on.

🔴  There are going to be an increasing number of fires due to the rising heat. These fires are going to get hotter and hotter, and they will burn fiercer and fiercer. It’s inevitable that a major city will burn. 

🔴  There are going to be more and more 20-inch rainfalls — dams of water falling out of the sky in unexpected places, drowning all below.

🔴  Bridges and dams will collapse. It has already been long established in America that these are much in need of repair work. It only takes a couple of these natural events to put them permanently out of commission. 

🔴  Scientists are 100% sure that there will be another pandemic — many more pandemics. As yet, countries are still not prepared for the next outbreak. More Americans died from Covid 19 than any other nation on earth, and more will die from the next serious pandemic.

My bet is that in a decade, the United States will have lost its international position, destroyed by its lack of care for its people, its lack of investment in its infrastructure, an increasing number of natural disasters, and the progress of other countries.

There will still be people who live ‘an ordinary life’ but they will be few and far between. Most people will be touched by events, and words and phrases like ‘The American Dream’ and ‘Leader of the Free World’ will have sunk into obscurity.

Its great friend, the UK, will be no better off.
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I've included only a few of the many bullet points the author uses to bolster her position. The rest of them do seem to add up to a predictably dismal outcome for the good ol' USA.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://archive.ph/lQeqS

ALTERNATE LINK -- https://medium.com/tessas-web-log/if-america-dies-dead-in-a-decade-91b0168db05a

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