There will be a few nuclear plant meltdowns which release deadly radiation into the surrounding areas. I predict twelve nuclear plants will leak radiation. Six of them will be in Russia, three in France, and one small leak in the USA. Two others in Japan. Although the initial death toll will be very low from these incidents, many people will be exposed and become very sick for many years to come. The actual numbers may never be known or made public. The public will demand all nuclear plants be shut down that aren't fully protected and safe. All governments will concede quickly. Quite a few of the almost five hundred nuclear plants in the world will never be started up again mostly due to the cost and lack of investment and public confidence.

As a result of the radiation leaks, deadly clouds will form which have to be monitored by a world agency as to their direction and RAD levels. Two clouds, each covering a few hundred square miles, will have an adverse effect on the countries and those societies commerce as they move with the wind currents. People will be warned beforehand, not unlike a storm forecast, to stay inside, rinse their food and wash their clothes often until the cloud has moved on. A technology not widely known to help cleanse the body of high radiation doses will become a standard medical practice strictly out of necessity (do or die prematurely).

The worlds livestock population will deminish rapidly. This will be good for the environment because the ozone depletion caused by cattle flatulence and livestock's feed demands will go down considerably but horrible for the industry economically. Humans will have to substitute vegetarian diets in place of meat. The affluent will be the only ones who will be able to afford meat. As a result, people will actually become more healthy in their eating habits and shed unhealthy excess weight.

A lot of factories (actually millions world-wide) are going to be closed due to economic problems. Pollutants from chemical producing plants will drop considerably but there are going to be numerous accidental releases through spills and explosions throughout the world, including the West. Governments will order the abandoned factories sealed. The spills onto the soil, into the water-ways and into the air will later become very apparent. I see entire neighborhoods closed off and abandoned forever in almost every major city in the world. The poor will move in and squat in some buildings. Government officers will forcibly remove the squatters but they will return as soon as they are released. Most governments give up trying to remove the people after a while and justify it as the squatter's own choice. The public agrees.

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