2008 Predictions for Earth
Last year I divided my World Predictions for 2007 into parts or areas. This year I want to mention that at the world level many of these parts or areas overlap. I will use the same areas but will leave out the Internet and Religion as separate areas.
WORLD POLITICS:
PETROLEUM will continue to dominate the WORLD - strategically, commercially, politically, militarily, and environmentally. Petroleum is the major economic lever of the very powerful planners of the new world order - and again the major contributor to the top three problems of the world - as it has been since the beginnings of the cold war - 1) environmental degradation 2) geopolitical antagonism 3) war. Again people - led by a more focused media - will talk about it, but the paralysis of a petroleum controlled political network will offer almost no help. In fact the political machinery on both sides of the aisle in the USA and around the world will continue to evade, ignore and minimize their responsibility or ability at every turn.
Why? Money and Power. Most major politicians owe their funding to the interlocking corporate concerns with oil at the apex. The manipulators of Big Oil also have the power to influence major economic trends, hence policy-making, hence political or real assassinations. Actually, the acknowledgment of Al Gore’s messages on Global Warming is welcomed by Big Oil and most of the power structure. There are several reasons for this.
1) Global warming can be labeled as “our primary concern” - while the other concerns like war and its huge costs can be better hidden and ignored. And Global Warming is gradual and can’t be fully reversed now no matter what is done for decades. Whereas, wars over petroleum fields and shipping lanes can and should be eliminated within 3-4 years, as solar, wind and hydrogen should be hurried along, but are not.
2) All nations - Russia and the USA - as well as any first-world or emerging nations can only fund their programs with an economy. At present the major economies