Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’
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Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’
Staring down the barrel of human-driven climate change, an astronomical cost of living, and a poor economic outlook, most people recognize that they are far closer in life to desperate refugees than they are to the politicians, war profiteers, and rapacious capitalists who create them.
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they will move in stages, first to cities, then out of countries and off continents on a scale so vast that it promises to transform much that is familiar about our cities and societies, our cultures and our economies. In Europe, the fast and large displacement of people from Syria and North Africa—which peaked at around two million migrants in 201
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As the planet slowly cooks, people will do what they have done for thousands of years in response to changes in their environment: they will move.
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Most threatening of all is the prospect of climate change. Humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years and have survived numerous ice ages and warm spells. However, agriculture, cities, and complex societies have existed for no more than ten thousand years. During this period, known as the Holocene, Earth’s climate has been relativel
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