Is this possible? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdehOa1oWBE As the world continues to change, the only predictor of the future is where we've been.

With that in mind, we have taken trends from 2000-2010 and extended them out to get a feel for what the planet could be like if the following two decades are like the last one.

Some of these patterns will likely change over the years, but as with the cancellation of tighter ozone rules, public policy isn't always guided by common sense.

Regardless, the following slides show that many of the trends from the first decade of the 21st century are simply unsustainable.