Looking into the future, more than just 9 years, in the long run, I see the U.S. becoming more populated with people. I do not like that idea, but it very well may be that someday in the next couple of generations the U.S. becomes as densely populated as Japan, or India, on a population per land mass ratio. Regardless of the rate of population increase, if we are going to preserve wildlife, we will have to seriously reduce the amount of pollution each induvial generates in all the things they do, and ways they have impact on land, air, and water. To that regard, especially if the population continues to increase anywhere near the rates it has in the past, electric vehicles are one step among many other things that will have to be taken serious if we want to maintain wildlife and quality of life for people in our country.
It probably will take longer than 9 years from now, but some day autonomous vehicles will change things in many ways we can not now imagen. Much of that will be an improvement. One thing that will be welcome is that the change in numbers of vehicle deaths and inquiries will be reduced on a scale similar to the scale of the numbers of horse and buggies being reduced from 1860 to 1950. And motor vehicle deaths and injuries will become as common as seeing a horse and buggy is today, maybe even less common than that.
One big area in need of some kind of major improvement is the timely recognition of people with severe mental problems. If there problems can be recognized and treated before they do harm to themselves and or others, life will improve for many people.
There are other areas in serious need of improvement in order for maintaining or even improving quality of life for people, but on BITOG there are limits on what can be discussed without starting a ripple that a couple of pages of post later turns into a tsunami in a direction of topics best left not entered into.
The United States is anything but a land of United people. We have sooooo many people with soooooo many different opinions on sooooooo many different subjects and different ways of life that it looks like what will determine the final results on many topics regarding what will happen will be the limitations of what nature can put up with. Getting enough people to agree on subjects to make a difference before natural limitations cause an effect is becoming harder and harder to do in our land of freedoms of thoughts.
In the past the line that determined where one persons freedom ended was where they would endanger someone else. Now days, not so much.
