Predicted and scheduled events[edit]
The world will need at least 50 percent more food, 45 percent more energy and 30 percent more water than it did in 2012, according to United Nations High Level Panel on Global Sustainability estimates.[1]
Saudi Arabia will no longer have oil to export.[2]
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will construct a manned lunar base.[3]
Planned Russian manned mission to the Moon.[4]
The majority of New Zealand cars will be hybrid, biofuel, or electric.[5]
The joint venture partnership between Volkswagen Group China and SAIC Motor is due to end.
Saudi Arabia will have constructed the last of 16 planned nuclear reactors.[6]
India will surpass China as the most populous country this year or earlier.[7]
“Humanity will change more in the
next 20 years than in all of human history.”