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.
Hemp is exciting. Hemp based plastic can replace petroleum plastic. Then there is hemp concrete and cheaper houses.
The defeat of President Trump in the 2020 elections is a victory for multilateralism which is about nations working together to deal with issues like climate change, diseases like covied-19, national disasters like floods, mass-migration and other threats to the global order.
Our behaviour is a product of both nature and nurture. Genetic testing tells us what we inherited.
Technology is increasing the global flow of information, but bringing more of the production of goods close to home.
The global economy has lifted much of the world out of poverty. But every nation has its own unique challenges and must find its own solutions.
Ocean currents impact our weather. And climate change is impacting ocean currents. A threat to our future.
New Arctic shipping lanes around Russia will change the global balance of power
