 Based on Latham's interview with Niemand, what might a listener be able to predict?
This, be it understood, is fiction—nothing but fiction—and not, under any circumstances, to be considered as having any truth whatever to it. An interview with Dr. I. M. Niemand, Director of the Psychophysical Institute of Solar and Terrestrial Relations, Camarillo, California. In the closing days of December, 1957, at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New York, Dr. Niemand delivered a paper entitled simply, "On the Nature of the Solar S-Regions." These implications are discussed here in an exclusive interview with Dr. Niemand by Philip Latham. I suppose you might say my main job today is to find out all I can between activity on the Sun and various forms of activity on the Earth. What do you mean by activity on the Sun? NIEMAND. Just what is a sunspot? I'm afraid I can't say just what a sunspot is. Isn't it true that the number of spots on the Sun rises and falls in a cycle of eleven years? In what way? NIEMAND. It means you can only approximately predict the future course of sunspot activity. Haven't there been a great many correlations announced between sunspots and various effects on the Earth? There is unquestionably a correlation between sunspots and disturbances of the Earth's magnetic field ... radio fade-outs ... auroras ... Now, Dr. Niemand, I understand that you have been investigating solar and terrestrial relationships along rather unorthodox lines. I think our biggest advance was the discovery that sunspots themselves are not the direct cause of the disturbances we have been studying on the Earth. In the solar case it turned out to be these S-Regions. It is extremely doubtful, however, if the radiation we detect is the actual cause of the disturbing effects observed. In the Sun? NIEMAND. Philosophers have wrestled with it ever since the days of Job. Well, disputes over boundaries ... economic rivalry ... border incidents.... NIEMAND. Such a syndrome is characteristic of menopausal women and some men during the climacteric, but these people failed to fit into this picture. In my opinion one of the most valuable contributions anthropologists have made in recent years is the discovery that primitive man is afflicted with essentially the same neurotic conditions as those of us who live a so-called civilized life. They have found savages displaying every symptom of a nervous breakdown among the mountain tribes of the Elgonyi and the Aruntas of Australia. No, Mr. Latham, it's time the stress-and-strain theory was relegated to the junk pile along with demoniac possession and blood letting.
 In the future, there will be an increase in the frequency and intensity of brutal disturbances on Earth
 In the future, there will be an increase in the frequency and intensity of brutal disturbances on Earth  There is not much time left before humans will destroy the planet as a result of their infighting  In the future, the frequency and intensity of brutal disturbances on Earth will plateau  In the future, there will be a decrease in the frequency and intensity of brutal disturbances on Earth