The article itself admits "All non-English-speaking powers of our globalised world recognise it as the first foreign language to learn". What that means practic

The article itself admits "All non-English-speaking powers of our globalised world recognise it as the first foreign language to learn". What that means practically is that pretty much all non-native-English speaking powers of the globalised world make the learning of English mandatory. If they have a compulsory education system that includes math and science, then I guarantee they also have English as a foreign language in the curriculum. Several unlikely scenarios I can think of that would cause English to no longer be the top lingua franca of the world: * aliens arrive and force us all to learn their language * technological breakthrough that allows extreme rapid language learning, everyone learns English of course, but they learn a bunch of other languages at the same time