20% of the world is becoming desert-like. There is Malta, and a third of the US.
Pipelines: The Israel pipeline from Eliat in the Red Sea to Ashkelon on the Mediterranean will now get oil from the UAE in supertankers bypassing the Suez Canal. Cheaper crude oil for the nations in the area.
The Israel pipeline from Eliat in the Red Sea to Ashkelon on the Mediterranean will now get oil from the UAE in supertankers bypassing the Suez Canal. Cheaper crude oil for the nations in the area.
Corporate Winners: 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.
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.
Brazil: An exciting but dangerous nation. Samba music and high crime rates. 6.3 children per female 60 years ago and 1.7 today.
An exciting but dangerous nation. Samba music and high crime rates. 6.3 children per female 60 years ago and 1.7 today. Massive immigration from Portugal, Spain, Germany and Italy in the past. 213.4 million people today and growing by 1.5 million per year. But then into decline after 2050 with a population of only 164 million by 2100.
The USA: The USA is in decline and China is in ascendancy.
The USA is in decline and China is in ascendancy. Covid-19 is a global killer and the US, which was half the world economy after WW2, has lost the pandemic war.
Grandmothers
Grandmothers
Thailand: Like so many developed nations of Europe, Thailand is experiencing long-term population decline.
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.
