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Anonymous

March 19, 2025

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we came close to disaster but escaped it. Maybe it took the scare to push us to do something. in the 15 years from 2025 to 2040 we realized that the future is not just an abstract idea that someone else will take care of. Sure, things are not perfect, but eventually an agreement was reached among nations to reduce the emissions that are harming the planet. A new consciousness has spread. On the streets, internal combustion cars are increasingly rare, replaced by electric motors or often even bicycles. Technology has moved on but it has also become simpler, with a taste for the essential that was not there in the past so overflowing with frills and driven consumerism.
Studies show that global warming is coming under control. The damage has been there and new damage will still be there before the end, but work is being done and successes are being seen.
Even in politics having come close to a new world war brought us closer together, first with suspicion, still fearful that this or that other nation was waiting for just the slightest opening for a new attack but then forging bonds. Only 15 years have passed, sure, the process is still in its infancy, but it is well under way.
It is not a perfect world. But it is a better world that is improving

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The future I would expect in 2040 points to people's awareness of having respect for nature and animals. Each house will be equipped with photovoltaic panels received from the incentives of the state and each country and each small fraction will have its own school so as to be able to have a united society and you will use less the car and more the bicycle. Next to the sidewalks will be planted trees so you will have oxygen and cool for the summer. There will also be respect towards the next and strange expanded , health services and saranni opened animal first aid. In southern Italy they will open ecological and green factories and give work to many people so they will avoid emigrating to the north and will remain in their country and there will be no more disparity between north and south.
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Feb. 21, 2040: Today is the day of scientific culture and intelligence of all European citizens. A day where finally there are no more people who see conspiracies on the part of medical, nursing and research personnel, placing, moreover, in the right position, the pharmaceutical companies as well. These, for their part, will see to it that they are less financially greedy. From this day forward, no one will protest and run away or hide only if the word: vaccine is mentioned. On the contrary, people will know that it will be a most useful weapon to fight diseases and will blindly trust those who have worked so hard for them in research laboratories. There will no longer be anyone to rough up a doctor or nurse, because everyone will have understood that they are necessary and essential. They will be essential again: trust, education, respect, common sense and study. Children and young people (I speak in the masculine because that is how Italian grammar wants it) will be enthusiastic, because they will be able to attend school and there will no longer be school dropouts due to changed mentality and economic situation, while parents will no longer allow themselves to beat up teachers, but will politely discuss what will be best for their children. In short, finally a world on a human scale, naturally supported by technological progress.
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