Sublime

A first assessment, based on international data, indicates that humanity is falling far below the social foundation on eight dimensions for which comparable indicators are available.

Since 2007, most of humanity has lived in cities made possible by concrete.

A sizeable majority of the world’s population (more than three in five) now believe the world is getting worse.

between 1989 and 2019 we increased global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by about 65 percent. Even when we deconstruct this global mean, we see that affluent countries like the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, and those in the EU, whose per capita energy use was very high three decades ago, did reduce their emissions, but only by about 4 perce

Not all of the challenges facing the region are geopolitical. One is demographic. The region is aging more rapidly than any region in history. The principal causes are increased life expectancy, low immigration levels, and declining fertility, something often associated with economic success. Many of these countries (in particular Japan and China)

Urban areas are mixing populations

(Take a second look at those figures – human population has increased fourteen-fold, production 240-fold, and energy consumption 115-fold.)