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>US will balkanize
>China will try to step up and fill the vacuum but will only control their region
>Cold war between china and japan
>New super power will be a cabal of corporate entities
>technological stagnation
>availability of technology will be only for the lucky few
>massive degradation in standard of living as ocean biosphere die off proceeds
>world will stabilize into economic bloc based on international trade between quasi corporate entities, the chinese and its satellite states
>china takes its turn fucking around in africa and the middle east
>colonization of space postponed indefinitely
>EROI looms
>eventual spinning down of industrial capacity as fusion turns out to be a pipe dream
>humanity eventually reverts back to victorian industrial levels of manufacturing capability
>space travel now impossible, not enough energy available
>humanity dies with a whisper, no resources left for any subsequent sapient life to attempt off planet exploitation