There will be more fear, more armed protection by individuals and by countries, more violence when the few remaining half starving people attack the people next door who happen to have more edibles and so have to be conquered. The rising prices of basic foods and the reduced availability of anything edible will lead to unending wars between tribes and countries.
But the oligarchs in their palaces think nothing of it.
They deem themselves protected against any attacks behind their fortressed walls. The rise in commodity prices doesn't affect them. They have hoarded more money than they can ever spend. All they are concerned with is the instability of the market. Speculation at the world's finance centers has gone so far that the speculators, the bankers and economists don't understand any more what is going on. The financial market is close to chaos.
The rivers and lakes are getting more and more polluted. The glaciers in the world are melting at an increasing speed. Some of the largest rivers in the world take their sources from those glaciers and they will be deprived of all-year-round water, water that is essential to agriculture and to all forms of life.
But the oligarchs in their palaces think nothing of it.
Fantasy or future reality?
The oligarchs still have a good supply of caviar and champagne. They have a good supply of nuclear missiles in case the remaining half-starving paupers should come and knock on their gates. They are militarizing space so as to feel undefeatable, the kings of the Universe. They are now among the very few people who have survived the destruction of the earth, the water and the air, destruction that they knowingly caused and didn't think twice about. The ocean has risen so that all the coastland and most big cities along the coast have disappeared into the sea.
But the fear remains. The oligarchs are comfortable in their palaces, but the fear doesn't leave them alone. They are constantly fearing that an enemy is going to invade their fortresses, even though they have no idea who the enemy is going to be. But rumor has it that there are still some terrorists living in the mountains in what used to be Afghanistan and Pakistan. There are still some people alive in India and in China and they might well come over and attack the few people left in the Western world. Australia and Africa are laid waste from drought and nothing living exists there any more. Africa was torn apart by civil wars due to lack of food long before the last human died from dehydration and starvation.
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