Please join me as I explore the surprises coming with Climate Change, the Pandemic and the War in Ukraine from a background of studying development in 40 nations.
During the pandemic it is Germany providing the global leadership that we used to get from the United States.
A population of 37.6 million that could double in the next 40 years. But its all due to immigration. A nation that could handle 100 million by 2100. Birth rates are weak like all developed nations, but a haven for new Canadians.
Eliminating unskilled jobs creates income inequality.
Complexity places limits on our political institutions. The world is run by bureaucrats.
China had a fertility rate of 2.9 children per woman in 1979, but today it is closer to 1.5. And this is despite government efforts t encourage child birth. The relative collapse of China’s population has huge economic, social and political implications.
Grandmothers
Belgium pandemic mortality numbers are the highest in the world. Partly because their numbers include people who die in nursing homes as well as those who die in hospitals. It suggests other nation’s numbers are understated.
