Vision 2120

We are all verse on the doom gloom of 21^st December, 2012. Even if that doom stops looming over us, will our future be secure enough till 2120? Only some clairvoyant could premonish that.  But considering the diminution of resources on a horrendous scale, it too seems to be elusive.

Now, this is year 2120 and we are at the same place as we were exactly a century and some 2 decades ago.  The natural resources which were in common use in 2011 are nowhere seen now, but to people’s dismay, even the non-conventional resources that were proposed to be ready in these years, either could not be developed or are out of common man’s reach. The prediction of scientists to the lapse of coal and petroleum has come true. Due to lack of petroleum and coal, power plants now only work on nuclear energy which has started causing problems of nuke waste disposal. The energy is also provided only to the crème de la crème of the society, out of the reach of common masses, the world population having reached around 200 billion. The USA is no more so called but now is divided into separate states akin USSR into CIS which was in 1993. It has been because US economy could not afford to oblige the countries which it had captured on the pretext of ‘War on terror’, namely Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and some part of the gulf. In fact there’s no more country left greater than the size of Mexico. All of which have together formed ISF that is an acronym for Independent States Forum. India has also now been divided into sectarian states. Earlier in India there had been caste sub bifurcations which has led to this severing of the map. There was sub division in each religion- Hindus had shaiv and vaishnavas, muslims had shias and sunnis, jains had digamber and shwetambar, Sikh had nihang and non nihangs, Christians had catholics and non-Catholics, parsis had Zoroastrians and non-Zoroastrians and the list was unending. Now Each one has separated on religious grounds as well as sub religious grounds. The country is now just a bunch of bellicose states. Everywhere in the world the situation is similar to the one which was in Egypt, Libya and Lebanon during the jasmine revolution of 2010-11. The poor ones are plundering the affluent ones, “survival of the fittest” is implied true to word now. Due to lack of energy sources, there are no more locomotives seen other than those whose hands really go deep into the pocket. The world has got into an oligarchy. There is also a new practice adopted by the ISF, to decrease the population, which is bombing and extirpating all the confinements and places with high crime rate, leading to much carnage, ubiquitously. The faulty disposal of nuke waste has led to serious epidemics. Hospitals are brimming with patients cum residents cum soldiers. Soldiers, because their everyday struggle demands mettle much more than that of a soldier. Most of the conglomerates have run bankrupt, and there’s humongous unemployment. Even the pollution has risen to such an alarming level that no living being could imagine surviving, touching Arsenic content of 50 ppm. The season’s cycle has completely changed with the escalating temperatures, Global warming, which has even lead to sinking of many an islands including major part of Japan.

-This cataclysm could only be stopped if we use our resources politically and expediently. Else, although grim, it is very much viable of our future to much extent.