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.
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.
Energy from wood chips. In Sweden it is bigger than hydro and nuclear. The secret is taxing fossil fuels.
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.
It looks like so many initiatives to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels will be neutralized by fossil fuels producing plastics.
Genetic engineering of plants is about feeding the world. And making more money at the same time.
A billion cows do not pass “eau de toilette”. How about fake meat?
20% of the world is becoming desert-like. There is Malta, and a third of the US.
