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.
My father worked on a farm in 1928. He said everyone was poor, but no one felt poor.
Our school shut down during the measles epidemic. Now we vaccinate 200 million kids per year.
The pandemic is changing western societies. Public health and other spending coming home.
It was educational to meet leaders of Mali, Niger, Benin and Chad at a world conference in Ottawa in 1981. They had all been sponsored by the Government of Canada and were fluent in both French and English. What they had in common were societies living in poverty and with exploding populations.
Complexity places limits on our political institutions. The world is run by bureaucrats.
