The last 40 years have been great to poverty reduction across the World. More people on the globe have exited poverty and gained access to goods and food than in any historical perio . However, while millions are leaving misery, especially in Asia, the rich are becoming richer. The middle class, the 40% in the the middle, ...

Globalization, nationalism, and the relations between them have been the subjects of debate for many years. The World has become very different from what it was, because of globalization. It is the struggle of nationalism against globalism, and it will be fought out, not only among nations, but within nations. As the World becomes interdependent, the fate of ...

The combined fortunes of the World's 26 richest individuals reached $1.4 trillion last year - the same amount as the total wealth of the 3.8 billion poorest people. The year before, it was the top 43 people and the year before that, it was the top 62 people. Billionaires, who now number a record 2,208, have ...

Claiming new national territories had been very much a European habit, applied to non-European parts of the World. In particular the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the French and the English created huge colonial empires. In the 1967 the United States and the Soviet Union agreed that colonization on Earth had been responsible for tremendous Human suffering ...

As the Earth’s ecological systems upon which we depend accelerate in their slouch towards catastrophe, our Society faces an existential crisis. The effects of climate change are far direr than we initially expected. The two degrees of warming that is the final major threshold before permanent, large-scale climatic shifts leading to ecological collapse, is no longer some far-off possibility, ...

Humans could eventually become immortal, not with their bodies, but by merging their brains with androids. You connect to an android to use as your body from now on, attend your funeral, and then carry on as before, still you, just with a younger, highly upgraded body. Technological developments mean that humanity is on a path to ...

Technology will be making us slower and weaker. Our bodies were not meant for this World we have built. That is why your back hurts. So much of the World that we take for granted and think is normal, it is not normal. That does not mean it is bad, but it is not normal from ...

The best advice for surviving a nuclear explosion is to be somewhere else when it goes off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP3bcPvgIG8 Nuclear explosions can cause significant damage and casualties from blast, heat, and radiation but you can keep your family safe (really) by knowing what to do (really) and being prepared if it occurs (really). A nuclear weapon is ...

More and more countries are talking about stopping the production and use of cash in their economies. The message is carried by the most prominent link of the monetary chain: States. Powerful lobbies are pushing ever stronger, in order to achieve total and absolute control of our economies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GADZ46VXmtU All over the western World banks are shutting ...

Change can come in many forms into your life. It might come forcefully like a tidal wave, or slowly creep along like a glacier. It might come in the form of devastating tragedy, a difficult choice, a broken relationship, a new opportunity, or as a text message. I stood at the front of the room in my wedding ...

Seeing the reality of your life sounds like it should be easy. But many people hold to a different version. It may be based in regret, disappointment, denial, or just waiting for something better. Failing to connect with reality is why some have pants in the closet that have not fit in years. If you want to ...

We seem to be turning nearly every aspect of life into a competition in which somebody must win and somebody must lose. Economics is all about competition, and the way we talk about it now emphasizes winners and losers. This country is taking away our export markets, this country is taking away our jobs, this country is ...