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No way out
Anonymous
March 19, 2025

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The year is 2040, global fires are complicating the lives of the still growing world population, it is getting warmer and the glaciers of the world are completely gone. Sea levels have risen significantly and continue to rise, coastal cities are under increasing pressure from ever-increasing water masses. Machines are increasingly taking over the tasks of humans and are becoming ever more intelligent, the CO₂ values in the Earth's atmosphere have long exceeded a critical level.
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First, peace. Peace across Europe, with an educated, positive and sustainable society that respects old values and strives for new ones.
A Europe in which every person’s voice counts in society, regardless of their faith, orientation or financial situation. This is possible in a well-educated community, because it is important not only that the majority of society accepts the minority, but also that the minority does not shout with its slogans. Technological progress has been somewhat "braked down" to be no longer the same as now that worn-out electronics cannot actually be recycled, and that AI enters places where human creativity must prevail, rather than machine thinking.
In 2040, the Great War in Central Europe is finally over. Minor conflicts still continue. Things have become unmanageable because of the EU bureaucracy and NATO's inefficiency after the US left the alliance. Russia managed to carve up the lands up to Germany, which occupied its former lands in Poland. Daniha lost Greenland, which was taken by the US. However, Russia had to give up some territories in the Far East to China. The EU ceased to exist, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal closed their borders to refugees from Eastern and Central Europe. Refugees from Central Asia did decrease after the US nuclear strike on Iran.
By 2050, many things will change on a global, technological, social and economic level.
There will be self-driving cars, drone deliveries, robotics in care and industry.
The world population has reached 10 billion.
There is a permanent base on the moon.
Nuclear fusion as an energy source works.
There are shortages of water, food and raw materials.
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