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Running head: FIVE ROADS TO THE FUTURE FINAL
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Five Roads to the future final
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FIVE ROADS TO THE FUTURE FINAL
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Five Roads to the future final
Introduction
Over the past years, there have been a number of predictions on how the current life in the
world would be. Basically, many people had come up with a number of theories and views on how
people in the present would behave. Notably, some of these predictions have come to pass while
some have not been affected. As a matter of fact, most scientists have created different notions on
how life ought to have been. It is worth noting that some of the current occurrences that include
technological and economic changes had long been foreseen.
Currently, there are a number of ways through which most Americans think life might look
like in the next few years. Moreover, every group of people has their personal view of the
predictions that have been projected for the next ten, twenty or thirty years. It is worth noting that
many instances of environmental changes have been observed in the world over the past few years.
These changes have affected human beings and other living organisms either negatively or
positively. In light with the aspect of environmental changes, the world is seen as a more dynamic
platform that is susceptible to various alterations either by human forces or natural forces (Starobin,
2014). As researchers continue to comb more information on how to come up with predictions of
the world’s future, a number of elements have been recognized to help scholars decipher how the
world would appear in the next ten, twenty or thirty years.
According to Starobin,(2014), there are five major roads that can lead to the world to a
highly predictable future. These roads include chaos, multipolar world, Chinese Century, global city
states and finally, there is the road of universal civilization that is believed to lead to a global
government (Starobin, 2014). If properly integrated, Starobin believes that these roads will greatly
affect the world future for the next fifty years. This coursework mainly seeks to analyze my personal
view on how the world would be in the next fifty years basing my argument on the various roads to
the final future. In addition, the paper seeks to analyze the effects that the changes in the world
would have on the environment and social sustainability of my field of specialization. In addition, the
paper seeks to provide an elaborate analysis on how I can use the changes to meet my professional
goals. Finally, I would provide an evaluation on the negative and positive changes that might occur in
the future and their effects in the world.
There are a number of scenarios that are expected in the future of the world for the next ten
years. Notably, as a result of increasing technological advancements in the global arena, there have
been a number of predictions on how the environment would change for the next ten years. As a
matter of fact, there are a number of environmental changes that are expected to occur in the next
ten years. There have been a number of negative environmental impacts of the changing
global system over the last decades that have been caused by factors such as rapid
industrialization and excessive indulgence economic development. Notably, this increase in
economic development has resulted in a massive disruption of the Earth’s environment and
ecological balance. In the next ten years, the world may experience increased abnormalities
in weather and climate patterns, high rates of Global warming, a massive extinction of some
animal and plant species, a significant number of ozone holes, and increased new illnesses
and diseases.
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From the increasingly dynamic world, the environmental changes described would
greatly reflect on the entire factor of globalization as well as the aspect of the environmental
crisis. Since these conditions and changes are not easily reversible mainly due to the
insufficiency of appropriate awareness on factors involving environmental issues and the
gigantic inaction in human society: various human activities in the next ten years are
expected to be largely environmentally unfriendly. As a matter of fact, the global population
growth rate is projected to dramatically increase to hundreds of million that would be
representing a great momentum and potential working against the transformation to a
sustainable environment.
Despite the attempts to prevent the changes from taking place in most parts of the
world, the next ten years would be marked with increasingly high rated ecological factors that
would lead to use of computers in all the office aspects. It is evident that the road to
environmental sustainability has, for the past few decades been barricaded with a good
number of roadblocks such as an increase in global financial crisis, inappropriate political
interests, and excessively deep-rooted global business that has been attempting to hurt
climate science. One of the greatest obstacles that people may face in the next ten years is the
lack of comparable and measurable consistent standards that can be used for defining, as well
as, determining sustainability. A number of environmental and economic concerns that had
been raised have not been fully resolute; however, a number of initiatives that are well-
coordinated are believed to present several possible solutions in the current times for many
global cities and companies.
In the next twenty years, a wide range of transformative scenarios are expected in the
global arena. Some of these transformations might harm or build the business and economic
world. In addition, there are predictions of massive environmental degradation in the next
twenty years. These changes would be caused by factors such as increased industrialization
and excessive scientific innovation. It is worth noting that the major trends that are expected
to shape sustainable economic development include:
Transparency – Various Companies, buildings and cities have been keeping records on
measuring and disclosing the amount of their carbon emissions, sustainable energy usage, and
other information that is related to environment sustainability. For instance, in the United
States, owners of most commercial buildings are always short of options: Two states and five
main United States cities have enacted sustainability disclosure policies and economic
performance measurement on energy for the next two decades. In addition, nine other states
and cities have also come up with legislations that are expected to assist both local and
international investors and tenants in making decisions that are better informed on the global
final future final. As a matter of fact, in Europe and Australia, a number of buildings are
required to show an elaborate display of their annual energy performance certificates. In the
next twenty years, Corporations are expected make their disclosures legal mandates without
disclosing their energy statistics. In 2011, for instance, nearly 3,000 companies which
included 404 Global 500 firms made a formal global report on their carbon emissions, water
management, and climate change strategies voluntarily to the Carbon Disclosure Project
(CDP).
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CDP had made an invitation for 58 cities globally to report information that was related to
economic and environmental sustainability for the first time in 2011. Of these, 42 cities
showed a positive response, of which 38 actually made public responses (CDP Global Report
2011). Besides, in 2012, CDP Cities are expected to massively expand its global request to a
total of 150 cities through a witnessed high response rate, and extraordinary international
commitment and awareness on issues such as climate change by major city leaders. The
leaders are expected to increase their recognition that managing water, sustainable energy and
waste management in helping promote business growth. As a result of the changes, residents
are also expected to ensure they participate in enhancing quality of life of the global
community in a number of ways.
Global Consistency is another factor that is expected to effectively lead to increased changes
in the global perspective. In the next twenty years, the world is expected to have increased
global consistency in a number of issues. First, as a result of increase in technological
advancements, the world would steadily turn into a global village where communication and
business would be done from any part of the globe. In addition, technology would lead to
scenarios such as the use of robots in almost every production plan and industrialization.
Increase in global consistency would also promote free trade across all continents thus
enabling computerization of the business world. Due to increasingly consistent globalization,
the world is expected to have a more globalized trade and professionalism in the next twenty
to thirty years. As a matter of fact, there are increased occupational consistencies that are
expected to occur in the next two decades.
In depth sustainability is another factor that is expected to cause a number of changes
in the global platform in the next decades. In addition, these changes would enable various
professionals to work in any part of the globe without having to face any global sanctions. In
the next two to three decades, there are a number of expectations that will enable reporting by
several multi-national corporations and companies in various cities across the world. The
global changes are also expected to intensify the need for creation of ways that would be
consistent in order to measure and analyze the effectiveness of energy, water, and other
achievable strategies that would enable the sustainability on a global basis.
The increased diversification in major global environmental main concerns have
provided implications that that the end goal of the globalized changes would not only be just
one global standard, but also a way of translating various business practices in international
and local government into a universal goal for the recognition of major achievements and
measuring effectiveness.
In the next two to three decades, the world environmental bodies such as the United
Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) are expected to launch a number of comprehensive
environmental policy frameworks that would help the world in creating a more defined and
effective environmental analysis. This is an appropriate management systems standard that
would include various specifications for increased and a more integrated energy
measurement, proper documentation as well as timely reporting on the aspects involving
consumption of energy.
Another factor that is expected to change in the next is the consistency of
measurement in various working conditions and several occupational frameworks. Consistent
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measurement is considered as a critical element to various economic corporations in their
focus on the increase of global economic sustainability in their business operations and also
in their varied supply chains. In addition, various CDP Cities are expected to develop a major
global interconnected economic framework that would help in understanding the ultimate
sustainability of the strategies that are highly effective for the company’s development that
are pursued by diverse cities.
In the next thirty years, there are various expectations on the global private and public
sectors. Various economists have predicted a series of mergers in the private and public
corporations so as to increase the overall efficiency of the firms. It is worth noting that
various business organizations and government agencies have fully explored their common
green goals and come to the unanimous realization that business partnerships between the
global public and private sectors would efficaciously overcome various obstacles to
sustainability. It is clear that the mergers and amalgamations in the global economic sectors
would increase the level of productivity and sustainability of the future. Notably, the
amalgamations would ensure an increase in the level of energy conservation in the entire
globe since a combination of major producers would encourage economic independence and
improved production patterns. Subsequently, the rate of technological advancement would be
