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.
Politics will be more important in building support for climate action than understanding the technology. Climate change is techy and quirky.
Big tech companies like Amazon and Facebook are becoming too big to fail. Like the big banks. Today’s heroes will be tomorrow’s villains.
Climate change could destroy the Hawaiian Islands, one of the most beautiful places on earth. The famous beaches on Waikiki are threatened by rising sea levels. And their massive coral reefs are threatened by warming, acidic oceans.
Nations with foreign investment and people bartering. Economic activity recorded and unrecorded. Big and small solutions for dealing with poverty.
Spain, like Italy, is facing major population declines looking into the future. This implies pressure on its economy to fund the pensions of an aging society, and cultural pressures integrating a growing immigrant population from Africa.
Millions around the world will soon be able to charge their cell phones.
Japan is directing and subsidizing its corporations to bring their manufacturing home from China.
