Predictions for 2025: Voices from various fields

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As we approach the new year, prominent figures from diverse backgrounds share their predictions and hopes for 2025, reflecting on the potential for change and the challenges we might face.

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00:00My predictions for 2025 are completely depending on the decisions and the behaviors we have today.

00:09If we phase out of fossil fuels, we'll have a better environment.

00:14If we have more kindness, wisdom, compassion, the world will be a better place.

00:22If we have less poverty, there will be less wars.

00:26So it's up to us to act.

00:28For the year 2025, I fear that we will experience a new wave of catastrophes.

00:39The second is of course a fight for the truth.

00:45The greatest good in the next few years will be the truth and it will be fought for by many sides.

00:53And that happens on the Internet, that happens on the street, that happens in politics.

00:57And the third, which I also see for the next year,

01:03are very, very many unlikely heroines and hero stories.

01:09We will be so often surprised by amazing, beautiful changes in the world.

01:15Because apparently, despite all the chaos and despite all the frustration,

01:20people are always reliving the world.

01:25For 2025, I would like to predict a much better digital health than the one we currently know.

01:30That is, we are very present on social networks, but no longer really present in reality.

01:36I would like us to really focus on our friends,

01:39to predict a year where we focus on our real social links and not on the social links of the unreal.

01:45That is, the fact of being able to connect together,

01:48also try to show kindness to each other,

01:51try to nuance each other's words in reality,

01:54discuss and talk around a glass,

01:56rather than confront each other behind their little screen with their well-defined opinion.

02:00Here are my three predictions in the form of a wish for this year.

02:05The first, that the wars end.

02:09The war in Ukraine, the war in Gaza.

02:12Too many victims, too much pain, too much violence.

02:19Secondly, I would like to talk about the writers of us,

02:25as engines of culture.

02:28Above all, that we all get together with our editorial offices,

02:35with our writers, that we get to promote concord.

02:40Hopefully.

02:42And thirdly, I would like to talk about us,

02:47about women, that we stop being victims of violence in our homes.

02:54So hopefully we can also achieve a 2025 in equality and with respect.

03:03My predictions for 2025 is, first of all,

03:05I believe that we can shut down Icelandic whaling.

03:08Secondly, I think that we'll bring more awareness to the Danish Sparrow Islands

03:13to end that horrific slaughter of dolphins and pilot whales there.

03:17And also we're going to put pressure on Japan.

03:20We have to end Japanese whaling.

03:22If we end Japanese whaling, we automatically end Norwegian whaling.

03:25And I think that in 2025 people are going to become much more aware

03:30of just how fragile our environment is,

03:33the fact that biodiversity and interdependence is being severely diminished,

03:38especially in our ocean,

03:40and that climate change is a major contributing factor.

03:43So people are going to become much, much more involved during this next year.

03:47This planet is suffering tremendously,

03:51and we suffer from all of it going the wrong direction.

03:57I mean, in terms of the climate, it's going badly in the same direction,

04:03in the same old direction, which is the wrong direction.

04:07And in terms of politics, old ideas come up that already didn't work

04:13when they were applied before.

04:15Nationalism is, I thought, was on the way out, but it's coming back big way.

04:20So, I mean, now if every nation is now going to say,

04:23me first, it's not going to go anywhere.

04:26So the idea of Europe is a much more beautiful idea.

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