Global Civil War

We are spiraling towards a new kind of violent social collapse and world war. At this point it seems inevitable. Not a world war of nation against nation but instead a global civil war as people across the planet take up arms against their own and their governments in a desperate struggle for survival as we face catastrophic climate change and pandemics - divided, polarized, and misinformed.

The poorer, less developed countries, and/or low lying island nations that are already so vulnerable, will begin to experience wide scale destruction of their way of life - be it through famine, drought, flooding, extremes of weather, and/or inadequate response to pandemics - through no fault of their own. Their governments will be ill equipped to deal with these catastrophes and the subsequent suffering and growing desperation of the people will ignite violent uprisings on a scale the world has not seen before.

In the wealthier more developed parts of the world extremism and polarization will worsen as social media and propagandist news outlets such as Fox News and the like misinform and divide, fanning the flames of hatred, fear, false conspiracy - for distraction, for a buck, for hate centered agendas, and for the fun of it. We will continue to divide and polarize, making large scale cooperation impossible, even as we face devastating global crises that threaten our and our children’s existence. 

Climate change is real and at this point cant be fixed -  all we can do now is mitigate it - but it will take drastic measures  - measures that short sided, politically motivated, government leaders and their ignorant and selfish constituents will block. It will become clear to the informed that these people then represent a threat to the world’s children - not abstractly - directly. A threat to their very existence. And that will spark violence. 

Pandemics will continue to become more frequent due to population growth and the effects of climate change on health, that the misinformed, ignorant masses and their world leaders will make worse. They will need to be forced to comply with simple public health mandates - and will not. And hence, more violence. 

Large factions of the populace will in essence be paralyzed by fear, hate, anger, and misinformation as we face these species threatening catastrophes - guaranteeing conflict on a scale the world has never seen.