The Mayhem of 2020 Was Predicted a Decade Ago
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This Researcher Predicted 2020 Would Be Mayhem. Here\\u2019s What He Says May Come Next
\\nNot everyone took Peter Turchin seriously a decade ago when he said widespread civil unrest would sweep through the U.S. in 2020.
\\n\\u201cThey had no reason to believe I wasn\\u2019t crazy,\\u201d says Turchin, a 63-year-old researcher who teaches cultural evolution at the University of Connecticut.
\\nIn 2010, after analyzing historical cycles of instability, Turchin made a prediction that was published at the time in the journal Nature: America will suffer a period of major social upheaval beginning around 2020.
\\nSome were skeptical, Turchin says, because \\u201cpeople did not understand that I was making scientific predictions, not prophecies.\\u201d
\\nThen 2020 came. Amid a global pandemic\\u2014which has so far killed more than 116,000 people in the U.S. and resulted in record unemployment rates\\u2014national unrest erupted at the end of May over the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who begged for his life as a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
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