A FAMOUS GROUSE
NEVER mind 2016, it’s the coming year that’s going to be the killer. So say the experts. Scientists, for example, believe the world will reach a tipping point in antibiotic resistance in 2017, which means more deaths from common infections like strep throat and pneumonia.
This is truly frightening. Just think, politicians will now be able to kill people merely by sneezing on them.
And that’s just for starters. Who knows what the Donald Trump presidency will bring? That is, besides the wholesale rape of the planet to exploit natural resources, accelerated climate change, and an idiotic trade war with China — followed, possibly by a real war?
Europe’s in for a hiding. Elections in France, Germany and maybe Italy could well deliver a deathblow to the eurozone. Sanctions against Russia will crumble and Vladimir Putin will be leading the Cossacks and Tartar hordes everywhere — but mainly with an eye on the Middle East, which will wind up a bigger mess than ever before.
Add to this the even less than hinged elements out there — like North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, said to be developing a “dirty bomb” drone, and the jihadists, who’re most definitely interested in same — and you could be forgiven for thinking that, in the words of the adventurer Rick Blaine (who once ran a decent nightclub in what was then French Morocco), our own problems don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.