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6 is a big NO. The most part of diseases of this decade are caused by plant based diets. Humans need meat, without it we get sick. B12 can't be found in plants, there are plenty studies that shows how sick we get if we eat ONLY plants.
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No. They need to supplement B12 and some other nutrients that are not found in plants.
This is just not true. You're probably thinking of vegans who aren't allowed to have cheese, milk, and eggs. Vegetarians can easily get B12 in their diets.
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Because they’ve never been to China but simultaneously think they knew a lot about China because the news they were fed. Particularly that Chinese people want democracy like Iraqis under Saddam (note: both are untrue).
While I haven't been to China, I think you mean Han Chinese. Uighurs and Tibet are less excited about being part of China.
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Yes. But that prosperity came with a massive balloon payment in the form of climate change. What's label prosperity today will be "Grand ma, WTF were y'all thinking?" Long to short, the jury is still out on the actual success of Gen-X.
I'm not buying the climate change alarmism. The climate has changed and will change. Some of that change (although I think its a small part) will be influenced by human activity. The Earth will adjust. Humanity will adjust. And humanity will continue to flourish.
p.s. Humanity will continue to flourish? Your prediction is based on what, past performance? When Mother Nature's bounty was harvested mindlesssly and shameleessly? That's going to continue forever? Infinitely? Can you share some links supporting such projections?
My predictions: 1. China overtakes the USA GDP by 2029 2. Trump wins reelection 3. The United States has a recession by 2021 4. Inflation becomes an issue in the United States because of high debt, increased military spending as a result of great power competition and huge pension debts/promises coming due with baby boomers retiring. The best investments (other then great startups of course) becomes Gold (because of…
2. Trump wins by smaller margin (losing Michigan or Florida)
3. What will the recession be caused by?
4. Maybe younger voters vote against Social Security for this reason [insert doubt]
5. Unless Bernie is elected don't expect any infrastructure spending
6. Huh
7. Don't get your hopes up
8. Maybe
9. There's no breaking point. Their Hell has no bottom.
10. Both Bernie & Trump are against TPP. Would require moderate to get it.
11. Only Americans/Brits are good at spreading movie culture, that'll be true for a long time to come.
Identifying the risky low lying areas is relatively easy. However, predicting how and where the climate will change for the better, is at best a crap shot.
We'll know things are getting serious when there's talk on Wall Street about moving out of lower Manhattan.
I kind of doubt most of these. My prediction: 1. China will fall to internal strife of some kind. Still may maintain power, but famine and mass executions / disappearances will occur. 2. we will have further centralization of the internet 3. Solar will only account for 10k Gw 4. Agree that nuclear will make a massive resurgence 5. Gas will still be the dominate power source for mobile transportation, but less so. Thi…
I kind of doubt most of these. My prediction: 1. China will fall to internal strife of some kind. Still may maintain power, but famine and mass executions / disappearances will occur. 2. we will have further centralization of the internet 3. Solar will only account for 10k Gw 4. Agree that nuclear will make a massive resurgence 5. Gas will still be the dominate power source for mobile transportation, but less so. Thi…
I think it’s more likely that the west will collapse than that China will, to be honest. Nobody in the west believes in their institutions any more and the uk and us folded like a house of cards with just the lightest push from Russia in 2015-2016. The economy of the west is still strong for now, but if we continue blindly following this nationalist path we’re going to end up the way we ended after our last dalliance…
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>China will fall >Saudi will have a violent revolution Very very unfortunately, this sounds more like wishful thinking than a reasonable prediction. The ways in which modern states can maintain power and suppress their people is overwhelming. China can and has built perhaps the most oppressive totalitarian state ever to have existed. Saudi is diversifying its absurd wealth to resist downturns in oil, and the "first w…
>China will fall >Saudi will have a violent revolution Very very unfortunately, this sounds more like wishful thinking than a reasonable prediction. The truly troublesome part is that predictions about social phenomenon can be self-fulfilling prophesy. If you basically want to see a bloody revolution instead of a better solution, that actively increases the odds of it happening.
The reason modern western leaders support house of Saud isn't that they're the good guys. They're just the best of what all realistic possibilities in the region, unfortunately.