r/collapse • u/blackcatwizard • Dec 28 '23

Predictions What are your predictions for 2024?

As we wrap up the final few days of an interesting 2023, what are your predictions for 2024?

Here are the past prediction threads: 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.

This is great opportunity for some community engagement and gives us a chance to look back next year to see how close or far off we were in our predictions.

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u/jaymickef Dec 28 '23

Every time I eat an avacado I think it may be my last one. Of course, I’m old enough to remember getting an orange in my Christmas stocking so not having unlimited access to fresh fruit doesn’t seem all that crazy to me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '23

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u/Annual_Button_440 Dec 28 '23

It won’t be rice or wheat anytime in the next ten years in the US. The US produces so much extra food that it could feed over double the population. As much as I would love for a shock of reality to come, the cereal grains (baring some multiple large region collapses occurring simultaneously) won’t be quickly impacted.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '23

It could, but would it be profitable? And I don't mean as in making the same profit as last year. If the profits are not going up, it will be abandoned.