Like the past, the future is very paradoxical

For example, if you are educated enough and in the right country and get on medicare by the time you are 65 you might live until 100, 150 or even 200 years old by the end of this century.

However, you also might see what we see now in people in places like New Delhi trying to survive without Air Conditioners in 120 degree plus Fahrenheit conditions while working too and people trying to work outside during Sandstorms from Baghdad to Saudi Arabia too. So, just like the past, the future is very paradoxical and depends upon your education and job and wealth a lot worldwide.

On one level without an education you might not live very long but on the other hand in some places on earth an education might not matter at all and hunting skills or fishing skills might be all you need to survive a long time.

So, though the future like the past is paradoxical though in different ways than in the past one must always be an opportunist in the moment in order to survive at all worldwide.

My daughter who is in her 20s often thinks in terms of how reducing one's carbon imprint on earth is everything.

However, that's only going to happen for educated people who think this way which is much less than 1/4 of the people on the planet. 

So, surviving and staying alive might be counterintuitive to many young people today under 40 years old right now.

Though there might be terraforming or weather manipulation by bigger nations like Russia, China, the U.S. European Union etc. most countries might not fare very well in weather control simply because what helps one nation in weather control is going to harm other nations downwind of those nations altering the weather for their own nations.

So, like I'm saying here there is new meaning to the word paradoxical in future history.

We experienced all kinds of paradoxical things in human history in the 18th 19th and 20th and now 21st century. But, if you look closely the paradoxical nature of things is slowly changing to completely new dynamics in every century for a variety of reasons. 

The most important reason is human overpopulation since we passed 1 billion people around 1804 here on earth.

Though fires people built using slash and burn farming techniques has been going on now for 15,000 to 25,000 years all over the earth, these same burning techniques began the existence of global Climate changes worldwide.

Though some of these global climate changes are mitigated by volcanoes going off these are usually temporary. For example, when Mt. St. Helens went off on May 18, 1980

it drastically altered the weather in Oregon, Washington and Northern California and Nevada and Idaho for several years after that eruption. It brought 10 to 20 degree cooler temperatures year around and sunsets that looked Purple and Green in addition to orange colors and red and pink colors. So, life changes a lot whenever a volcano goes off especially downwind of a volcano.

The French revolution which began 

May 5, 1789 started because the Icelandic Volcano went off and the pyroclastic cloud covered France among other countries and it caused the average French person to starve to death from not enough sun to grow enough food so the French people guillotined the royalty and French Aristocracy (unless they escaped to England or other countries at that time. The musical "Les Miserables" is about this time in actual French history by the way.

The point of all this is of course one needs to expect many many paradoxes worldwide in this century just like in all past centuries of some people having too much and some people not having enough and hundreds of millions of people starving to death on a yearly basis worldwide especially in 3rd world countries.

And unfortunately, because of Covid the last two years and the war in Ukraine this is looking to be the most awful worldwide Famine we have seen on earth since world War I during at least the next 2 years caused mainly now by the Russian embargo on shipping to anywhere from Ukraine (especially Ukrainian grains that tend to feed the Middle East and Africa the most. So, likely grain will go to China and Syria and possibly Iran now but not the rest of the world because of the Russian embargo on all Ukrainian ports and ships.