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.
Climate winners or losers? Drought or desalination? Animals dying or thriving? Polar bears are climate losers and grey whales are climate winners. A little quirky?
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.
It’s a form of slavery when families send children out to work.
A nation of 1.38 billion with a population growing by about 15 million a year. And within three or four years its population will exceed that of China. Complex, colorful, and an important long-term ally for the West with its young educated English speaking population.
New Arctic shipping lanes around Russia will change the global balance of power
Large tech giants will get stronger during the pandemic. The political left will want them regulated.
My father worked on a farm in 1928. He said everyone was poor, but no one felt poor.
