By Simon O’Connell, Executive Director, Mercy Corps After the warmest decade on record, its January 1, 2030. The IPPR predicts a £13bn shortfall in the funding of. In a slightly more recent prediction, made in 2016, Gates does not name any existing method of renewable. Join the movement by taking action here to call on world leaders to unite globally to defeat COVID-19. The 65-plus population will rise to 15.4 million by 2030, from 11.6 million today, while the working-age population will rise by just 3. He believes Africa will achieve the goal due to a number of structural changes:įirst, better fertilizers and crops being developed will cause an upward spiral of greater nutrition leading to greater productivity. By 2030 there will be a clean energy breakthrough that will revolutionize our world. Africa will become entirely self-sufficient in terms of food production. While this may seem outlandish, similar events have occurred before: the most obvious example is the Black Death, which killed almost a third of Europe, but more recently, in 1918, the Spanish Flu wiped out between 50 and 100 million people. In the next 15 years, 33 million people could be wiped out in less than a year by a pathogen.Īt the Munich Security conference, Gates warned that "epidemiologists say a fast-moving airborne pathogen could kill more than 30 million people in less than a year." This could be due to mutation, accident, or terrorist intent. Over the last few years, in interviews and annual letters, he has continued predicting: here are a selection of seven of his insights. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a resolution adopted by the U.N. Bill Gates has been almost prophetic in his past predictions: his 1999 list was hauntingly accurate, foreseeing the advent of price comparison websites, smartphones, social media, and bots.
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