2050

Britain's population will be the biggest of European nations by the year 2050. This prediction, along with other predictions of population growth in the rest of the world, all point to the next few decades as the deadline to make drastic changes in environment and population growth.

Nowadays financial markets are more than ever concerned with making it as far as day’s end; what’ll happen in 2050 tends to worry them about as much as what happened in 1850. These forecasts barely rate a shrug.

People need to think more than ever before about growth in economics, population, and pollution in the environment. Thomas Friedman says in Hot, Flat, and Crowded:

Our young people are so much more idealistic than we deserve them to be, and our broader public, though beaten down at times, is eager to be enlisted - enlisted to repair our infrastructure, enlisted to help others.

If what Friedman says is true about the new generation, it will be a great burden off the back of the world. Fixing the degrading Earth is more of a necessity than ever before.