Abstract
This paper compares the forecasts presented in two recent publications, Global Trends 2030 and 2052 - A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years. The two differ because Randers believes in slower population and economic growth over the next several decades, significant disruption from increasing climate change, and an end to US supremacy.
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