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.
We need a Covid-19 vaccine that works for 90% of those who receive it. And at least 70% of the population must be willing to be vaccinated. Treatments for those who are sick may be more successful than vaccines designed to prevent the disease.
President Roosevelt used infrastructure spending to put the economy to work in 1933. It will work in 2020.
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.
The EU is the German Empire. But an economic union run by bureaucrats.
During the pandemic, Canada and the US demonstrate two different cultures. A Canada united and a US divided.
China had a fertility rate of 2.9 children per woman in 1979, but today it is closer to 1.5. And this is despite government efforts t encourage child birth. The relative collapse of China’s population has huge economic, social and political implications.
Demand for EVs will explode when we have low-cost batteries. It’s about better technology, not the environment.
