There is a publication being released next month which is backed by Unesco, the World Bank, the US Army, and the Rockefeller Foundation called State of the Future. It's something they've been doing every year now for awhile. Some 2,700 experts from around the world contributed to it's staggering 6,700 pages of info. From what I can find, the state of the future looks pretty damn bad. For some reason they think this is news to everyone. If you read this blog you already know "Billions of people will be condemned to poverty and much of civilization will collapse." This isn't news to us.. we already know how screwed we are! If you want to read the executive summary, you can find it here (even the summary is a bit lengthy). Check it out though, it does have a pretty sweet graph.