To wonder what we do now that will be frowned upon in 30-40 years time

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This video is a prime example of how attitudes change. It seems we go just go from stupid to stupid all the time.

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Another example is passive smoking. Obviously stupid and horrible to think we just smoked freely inside, thinking it was fine to breathe in smoke.

Fossil fueled cars will likely be the next as will idling cars outside of schools but I wonder what else we'll be scratching our heads over in future.

Gosh this is so depressing! I'm glad I'm alive now when I can eat meat and have a glass of wine! I do think meat eating will go, but not in 30/40 years, more like 60+. I think drinking will lose popularity, but definitely won't be completely banned/frowned upon. Other drugs will rise in its place though, students will always want to get high on something!

I really hope we get euthanasia to stop all the pointless suffering of older people before death. I think petrol/diesel vehicles will go. I don't think long haul flying will go, just become more expensive and so only for the v wealthy.

All the old people with tattoos

I hope so.

Huge population growth. A problem across most of the world. In the UK largely an immigration debate due to our birth and death rates.

The impact more humans causes its huge. More humans, and more of them expecting / wanting more stuff drives so many environmental and societal problems. I found Covid lockdown interesting because we experienced a lot of things with fewer people. It made me see an alternate possibility.

Achieving lower population is hard from a government policy perspective though. Maybe a war or new pandemic will be the thing.

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Though I was thinking of the teens/early 20s students in my own generational example.

Identity ideologies.

Teaching children biological denial. Medicating children with puberty blockers, setting them on paths to sterilisation, major future health issues and irreversible surgeries like castration and mastectomies.

Hopefully a lot sooner than 30-40 years but I'm not optimistic the capture and capitulation of our political and public service organisations to this abhorrent activism can easily be reversed at this point.

Huge population growth. A problem across most of the world. In the UK largely an immigration debate due to our birth and death rates.

I thought we are reaching peak population growth and actually it is expected to plateau and begin falling by the end of the century. Due to falling fertility rates amongst other things.

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Some people are just listing things their middle aged brain doesn't like and wants to go away. But if a current 12 year old thinks differently, then I'm afraid you're the dinosaur. Not all future change will be "good" from the point of view of a current 40 something, in the same way that some of our parents wouldn't like things we accept as totally normal.

I thought this.

I think the political system will have entirely changed around the world.

In this country we are about ten years away from the Conservative and Labour parties fragmenting into smaller groups that appeal to more extreme views on either side.

I think in 50 years all cars will be electric.

There will have been a major civil war in the U.S.A.

China will be keeping a devastated and ruined Russia population alive

There will not be a United Kingdom or monarchy as we see it today; Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland will be as separate as Eire is now.

Will be back in the EU, which will be stronger than ever, due to us not being able to trade well enough or have enough freedom of movement to provide workers for our essential services ( actually that will happen in the next 10 years as well, maybe 5 ).

Self driving electric Ubers? Do you live in an urban area? I think that is the way forward.

Same here - just with a dog. He‘s happily snoozing on the sofa after a long morning walk.

in Line with what a PP has suggested, things that will be unacceptable are the things todays tweens and teens find unacceptable, so:

trans people will be accepted without comment, as will gender fluidity.

environmental issues - kids are very concerned about the use of plastics, fossil fuels etc and restrictions will be coming on their use

greater automation and novel or portfolio careers - people won’t stay in one type of work for life, but have a range of jobs (many of which we won’t be able to imagine right now). The idea of a ‘job for life’ will feel wired and outdated. Doing mania jobs ourselves (like driving, cooking or farming)
will few old fashioned.

gender politics - traditional male / female roles will continue to be eroded and equality will continue to increase

food - meat consumption will continue to fall and we will wonder why we ever thought we needed to eat meat daily

high street retail will continue to decline as more and more things get shifted online, but central districts will more more to become leisure spaces as places to meet people / do stuff.

i actually think it’s going to be quite exciting (except I will miss shopping in town, a great pleasure of my youth lol!!)

You can think that if you want, but it is how I feel because I'm fat too. I have also broken many bones, and being fat plus having made my bones weak from breaks makes me a lot more vulnerable to arthritis. I'm going to get it anyway, but I want to prevent it for as long as possible. So I am exercising more (as much as I currently can, it's getting better, but I did just learn to walk again), eating better and slowly I'm getting better. I don't feel pain as much. My heart rate is getting better. So yes, I do care about others doing the same too, as it also effects family members. I know first hand how difficult it is, and the pain. It's not something someone young should go through.

Second homes will be banned.

Electric planes are already being trialed, planes are really important in keeping small island communities alive and won't be going anywhere. Burning fossil fuels will be considered archaic pretty soon hopefully but we'll move to renewable sources of electricity.

There is also rapidly increasing evidence that actually being fat is NOT all that bad

Yes... obviously being hugely obese is not healthy...but a stone or two overweight is actually not particularly dire and according to come evidence may have some benefits.

Gender fluidity was acceptable when I was a child and into my 20a

So no , what the young people think doesn't automatically become standard in tjme

What has happened since my youth has been regressive with stereotypes enforced and harmful behaviours encouraged
for all who are gender none conforming

The correlation between bmi and death rate is pretty clear

We are. Most growth in the coming years is due solely to population momentum. In 30-40 years, population ageing, especially in poorer countries, will be the norm and society will have to adapt. Pop growth won't be the issue in 30 years outside perhaps parts of sub-Saharan Africa - we've reached 'peak child'

Hopefully “Influencers”…. I really hope we are all thinking for ourselves.

Prescribing off-label puberty blocking drugs to physically healthy children.

I have to say this is my experience too.

Yes you can. You put, fundamentally, the rights of someone not to be abused at the top as a priority. You can have any cultural practice going, so long as it’s not abusive. Ear piercing is not abusive, if it’s practiced with informed consent. No culture is going to be significantly harmed by piercing girl’s ears at 10 (or 12. Or 16. Whatever) although the patriarchy might be. Culture cannot shield abuse and simultaneously expect to be respected in a world where abuse is not acceptable.

Honestly I think the looming effects of climate change on the geopolitical landscape is going to lead to a population wondering what kind of naval gazing idiots we actually were.

Don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone and all that. Despite all the bad stuff the last sixtyish years is going to be viewed as a relatively ‘golden age’. That’s not being pessimistic because we all adapt and change but I think responsibility is going to weigh heavier on younger and future generations.

What is wrong with old people having tattoos? Does it have any impact on your life in anyway whatsoever