"A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years"
Who knew that it was a political climate change that would doom us?
Now you will use an electric vehicle, or do without!
Not because we have made an electric vehicle for everyone, or that they work in all conditions, or that we upgrade the grid to charge all of these electric vehicles, no, it is because it is now mandated. If you don't get in line right now to get your EV, then you will be SOL. You will have to walk to work. Even if you are a trucker.
Who could have known that in 5 short years, the political climate would change so much?
End of the world predictions are always wrong.
This is because they have to be long enough for people to do something, but not too far away, else no one will be motivated to give govern-cement more power.
Something like 10 years is good for political doomsday prognosticators. It is far enough out that people by that we need to make changes in law, but not too far out that people just tune it out.
So, when the prediction is based on an amount of time into the future, not to big, not to small, then it has no actual validity. (except it randomly could be correct) It is rare for something to line up at exactly 10 years from now.
(and the world is not going to end... maybe humanity will)
Even if you know that something is going to happen in the future, the timing is hard to determine.
Like, "the dollar will die". It is only a matter of time. All previous fiat currencies have gone to zero, and there is nothing to show that the dollar will not follow suit... but when? So many of us have felt the dollar should have been dead long ago. And there are a few that hold the opposite stance that the dollar will never die.
You could know the exact series of events that will transpire. Like knowing each domino individually. And determine a fairly accurate timing of events from this. However, humans / humanity can decide how fast/slow they accept changes.
I have watched as humanity has put off things into the future. Slowing the entire process down.
And really, the dollar should have collapsed by now!
Even Astrology doesn't accurately predict timing
A specific event will follow the astrological chart almost perfectly. However, astrology is wheels within wheels, and times (specific energies that are right for a manifestation) repeat. So, it may be this cycle, or the next cycle, or the one after that.
So, Astrology could be used in such a way as to give you a set of dates when something could happen. However, astrology is complex. And there may be patterns you missed, that are also good times for a particular manifestation, so, it is not easy to use astrology to predict timing.
However, in hindsight, it shows up quite clearly in the chart, and every readers shouts, "Of course it happened, just look at the position of Venus!" (it could be any planet)
Maybe in the future we will truly use astrology to guide our time planning.
Overall, if the date is politically motivated, it is wrong.
And even if the best psychics come up with a date, it may be wrong because humanity has control over time flow.
Even Astrology doesn't give us as clear a picture as we like.
But, still, we earthlings like to try to guess when something in the future will happen.
And share those with the world.