The worst is yet to come: Scientist warns social instability and political violence will peak in the 2020s

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Social instability and political violence in the Western world looks set to peak in the 2020s, a leading professor in cultural evolution has warned. Peter Turchin, from the University of Connecticut, was revisiting a scientific model he started working on almost a decade ago – which identified at what point political turmoil would peak in the US and Western Europe.