Ana -
We must be prepared to see a dramatic change in our world, but the only alternative is to share and to accept our "way of life" of spending the planet's resources and creating a class of wealthy parasites sitting on their money and living in luxury and indifference, its not longer viable.
The viability/sustainability question lies simply in the number of humans on the planet. While this can be framed as a geopolitical problem, it goes far beyond that. We are consuming, by some counts, 3x planets-worth of resources right now. Obviously this cannot continue. Bio-systems have built-in mechanisms for dealing with unsustainable populations -- as in population crashes from pestilence, disease, hyper-competition, and so on.
Imbalances within the human population (say, distributions of power/wealth/energy) are small when compared to the imbalances between the species and the planetary resources.
This is where the crash/transformation/evolution comes, not through some re-shuffling of geopolitical boundaries/hegemonies/resoures. It's important to see the forest (system) and not only the trees.
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