THE TWILIGHT BEFORE THE STORM EXAMINES WHAT IS ARGUABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING HUMANITY: HOW CAN WE AVOID A WORLD ON FIRE?
The seeds of today’s disorientation were planted decades ago.
The choices that the young Baby Boomers made in the 1970s-80s have liberated societies from their past strict constraints.
Since the Global Financial Crisis (2010), the trust in neoliberal consensus collapsed, and over the last decade, the world no longer agreed on the “right” social, political, economic, and business model.
Why has global consensus collapsed and why do we no longer agree on what is right and wrong?
Given that policy choices would be undoubtedly hotly contested with decisions lagging the intensifying pace of change, we might not be able to avoid the 1940s ‘world on fire.’