[Animats]

We're in a period of really bad leadership of the major world powers. It's like the runup to WWI, which was probably peak stupid.

Technically, things are looking pretty good. Energy is a problem only in the near term. Solar, wind, and batteries are so cheap that massive deployment is happening for purely economic reasons. Population is leveling off. Computing is in good shape.

[markles]

To add a counter to this, I'd say technically things are looking pretty bad. The population is expected to grow by 2 billion people in the next 30 years, so I wouldn't call that leveling off. With the degradation of, and simultaneous need for more arable land, food supplies could become an issue, especially if we see more things like the Russia-Ukraine war take place. We'll have fished out most of the ocean in that same period of time. We're also running out of fresh water in areas we need it as we drain aquifers and winter snow pack declines.

Arable land under threat -https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00139...

Fish stock collapse -https://news.stanford.edu/news/2006/november8/ocean-110806.h...

Lack of fresh water -https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170412-is-the-world-run...

There are many other things, such as the continued reliance on fossil fuels and still increasing demand for crude, coupled with a lack of new oil exploration.