Actually to me that's an improvement as my back plate, and thus my battery, has come loose causing the phone to sometimes turn off when it falls.
Sometimes I do that because I forget to take my shirt off.
Plant based diets, specially in Europe, and very important for food security. Europe is small and very densily populated, which means there's not a lot more places where we can farm. If we eat more plants instead of more meat, we reduce the amount of space needed. It also requires less energy, and farming still uses a lot of fossile fuels, which in Europe come from abroad. On top of that, population is growing, in great part due to immigration, so this problem will only grow.
So yeah, more plant based meals mean more food security and energy security for Europe.
The US would not be able the stop a BRICS common currency. And the Euro is already used in "more GDP" than the US. It will happen organically. Unless the US plans to attack Europe I can't imagine what they can do.
Haha yeah, but I think it's important to distinguish between pollution and CO2. A bit of CO2 in the air is fine.
I'm from the future.
The amount of oxygen in the air is hardly changing and would support human life easily after climate change goes bananas. The amount of CO2 that is causing climate change is actually quite tiny even though it doubled or tripled since pre-industrial times. It's still far less than 0.5% (the safe recommended amount) of the atmosphere. You could triple the current CO2 levels, which would be devastating for the climate, and still breath perfectly fresh air.
But what about the economy??? We need profits now not tomorrow.
That would probably not happen at a human scale. Civilization would collapse and nature would heal.
Extinction is highly unlikely. End of civilization perhaps, but humans are extremely hardy and versatile. You would be hard pressed to kill all humans in all biomes.
I was reading that actually this change helped make the phone thinner and lighter, and they used a softer battery instead of the old one with a hard shell, so it was definitely a compromise.