The Great Disruption

If China succeeds and the United States fails, the implications could go well beyond the shift in economic competitiveness and wealth. It could undermine the moral authority of democracy and lead to a shift in global geopolitics back toward autocratic

measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

technology company, where the myriad complexities of the market, technology, and consumer behavior are subject to many unpredictable, game-changing developments. The situation with sustainability, particularly climate change, is much simpler. As we covered earlier in some detail, there will certainly be surprises in technology, politics, and events

Five Ways to Well-being, which focused on connecting with people, being physically active, taking notice of the world around you, learning new things, and giving to others (which includes volunteering).

Launch a government- and community-led “shop less, live more” campaign

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As we covered earlier, our current model of economic growth, the one that is bringing some of the poor out of poverty, works to make the rich richer as well. Of course, this isn’t a practical problem for the poor if it brings them out of extreme poverty. The problem is that the size of the economy needed to achieve this outcome is not possible. So,

These people are instead focusing on building stronger communities with greater resilience and on enhancing our quality of life rather than our quantity of stuff.

The human ones include linkages between the ecosystem and the economy, as in our earlier example of the food system, where higher oil prices and subsidies for corn-based ethanol in the United States led to deforestation in Brazil, which worsens climate impacts, which drives up food prices. The other key human uncertainty is technology. There is alw

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