Online journal, Online Opinion, is calling for article for its January feature which is titled Looking forward – the next five years.
I’ve been asked to write 900 words on the subject. It is impossible to take an evidence-based-approach to the future? So whatever I write will have to be pure conjecture?
I am currently pondering what it might be like in 2010… and I am interested in your thoughts on the following subjects:
Will it be hotter and if so, by how much?
What will be the price of oil?
Will more people be driving hybrid cars?
Will there be a nuclear power station under construction in Australia?
Will cotton and carnations still be the only commercially produced genetically modified (GM) crops in Australia?
Will more people be eating kangaroo and crocodile or will we still be focused on beef, pork and chicken.
Will Western Australia have solved its salt problem?
Will Brisbane be drinking sewerage (recycled water)?
Will there be more koalas in Australia in 2010 than in 2005?
It would be great if you could post a comment or two below on what it will be like in 2010 – and that way I can write the piece as a contribution from the readers of this blog rather than having to put my own name to a whole lot of predictions!
Between now and then (January 2006) I am going to be spending some time surfing.
I am unsure whether I will have access to the internet next week and so have asked Roger Kalla to keep readers of this weblog amused. He has agreed. So the prediction for next week is that Roger will post more than me.
I have never met Roger. But I know he has a range of interests from bird flu to biodiesel. He once worked for the Victorian government and grew up in Sweden.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.