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The survival of the world's human populations in anything resembling their present numbers is unlikely. A number of interacting problems threaten future and present generations. The principal elements are continued population increase, accelerating adverse climatic change and all its consequences -especially increasing desertification, freshwater depletion, damaging climatic behaviour, crop damage, rising sea levels, and resource depletion. These events will probably accelerate attempts to migrate by ever larger numbers of people accompanied by civil and perhaps international conflict. The present fast evolving economic chaos is merely a precursor. This paper sketches the primary elements and postulates some grim possible consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]