This Scientist Predicted 2020 Would Bring Major Upheaval | Time: On top of that, Turchin says the COVID-19 pandemic has further worsened the wellbeing of large swaths of the American population—a leading driver of national instability—and could make the public less likely to trust government institutions. As millions of Americans remain jobless, Turchin says there will be other triggers after this. He worries tensions “may escalate all the way to a civil war.”
“Unfortunately,” he says, “things are not as bad as they can be.”
“Unfortunately,” he says, “things are not as bad as they can be.”