It won’t be a surprise

September 16, 2025

The 2020s will be known as the decade when global leaders, paralysed by weakness and lack of courage, turned their backs on the greatest threat to humanity — impending climate disaster — and instead beat the drums of offshore war, until they actually had a few.

Prior to that, they were lining their pockets with dosh from weapons contracts entered into because of those wars. Meanwhile, the population, smelling the deception, and feeling the growing anxiety of millions, sensing impending natural disasters, scarcity, high costs, financial instability and government waste, decided to take to the streets and make clear their dissatisfaction with their country’s weak leadership and inaction.

What happened next took the government by surprise, but to anyone watching for the past 15 years, the consequences were entirely predictable.