Some Predictions for coming years

Well I am taking a class in Geography and its a part of core curriculum. So far we have discussed things like El Nino, Volcanoes, Global Warming. My professor Doc Horsley is an interesting person. I especially liked his lectures on Global Warming and how it affects the perception of people. The main theory is that we are producing lots of Carbon dioxide and it will raise the temperature of earth considerably and it will lead to polar ice melting and consequently submerging of lots of low lying area. The doomsday graphy of ocean boundary was pretty interesting. However my prediction is going to be on the different thing its regarding the population in India. Lot has been written about the population of India becoming so much. From what I read the current prediction for world population is 12 billion by 2054. However I feel it will miss the mark, by how much I can't say now but I wouldn't be surprised if it misses by a billion or 2. The reason I think so is that our society is changing so rapidly that not many people really understand its consequence on the people's attitude and sex life. Other thing I see is more and more countries dismantling the artificial boundaries. Like Euro rail there will be trans asian rail network and probably a trans euro asian rail road network. Streching all the way to Africa and could be to American continent. On Religious front there will be more people claiming themselves to be non religious. Vegetarianism will be at fore front. Gay marriages will be common and people will laugh that in 2005 there were people who were opposed to it. Major religion like Islam's growth will be contained. Education will be a big business. More people will be busy updating their educational skills than anything else. People will be living lot longer than they currently live.