The world is barreling towards disaster on many fronts. Crises include: climate change, depopulation, government debt, sagging welfare states, housing affordability, healthcare affordability, political polarization, government paralysis.


By 2050 they will all be irrelevant, as will the structures trying to grapple with them.


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