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.
It seems all the nations of Eastern Europe are facing major population declines. The most serious being Bulgaria. And even today this means a collapse of the countryside with empty building and the closing of the shops. A mobile grocery service calls three times a week.
They lived through the Great Depression and WW2. Life was about survival not equality.
California is not the only place on fire. Fires are fueling the demand for solar-battery systems.
Every period in history characterized by climate change has experienced massive specie loss. Millions of species have come and gone.
15% of small firms could disappear as a result of the coronavirus. But they will all be replaced by new ventures.
Like so many developed nations of Europe, Thailand is experiencing long-term population decline with the typical pattern of low birthrates and low mortality, yet a reluctance to open its borders to people from the neighbouring countries of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
