Looking Forward to 2025? Well, It May be Worse Than 2024
Why 2025 Will Be Tougher Than 2024 The year 2025 sounds promising, but it may be remembered for all the wrong reasons. The future looks grim, with crises that are both global and personal. From cities reduced to rubble to a preventable health crisis spreading like a modern plague, the challenges ahead are daunting. If you think 2025 will be another year of doom-scrolling and binge-watching Netflix, think again. The numbers suggest otherwise—surviving 2025 might be harder than you expect. Rising Mortality Rates and Declining Life Expectancy Excess deaths have surged worldwide, even after the pandemic officially ended. Between 2020 and 2024, mortality rates in regions like the EU, Australia, the USA, and the UK remained significantly higher than pre-pandemic levels. In the U.S., life expectancy has been declining, a trend not seen in most other developed nations. A 2022 NIH study revealed that American men lost 1.8 years of life expectancy between 2019 and 2021, while women lost 1...