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.
When oceans become more acidic from carbon dioxide, it impacts the ability of shell fish to build their shells.
Our cell phones connect us to the world. Politicians can’t fudge what is happening.
The world needs to combine enterprise and welfare solution to reduce poverty. Planting trees works.
The pandemic is a bankruptcy story. Large firms can use bankruptcy to restructure. Small firms will close to avoid bankruptcy.
A nation like Japan with a declining population. Not just more deaths than births but net negative immigration. Tough funding the pensions and health care of an aging society when you lack young taxpayers. The famous Italian culture is at risk.
An explosion in agriculture. Natural gas from Siberia via the Northeast Passage. Climate change ensures Russia’s superpower status.
President Roosevelt used infrastructure spending to put the economy to work in 1933. It will work in 2020.
A nation with an exploding population, Nigeria faces enormous pressures to feed, clothe and house its people. And to makes its problems more difficult, its educated professional class wants to emigrate. Lots of illegal immigrants have found a route to Italy via Libya.
