Imagine if poverty were finally eliminated. Not only would that solve many of our problems such as uncontrolled migration, habitat destruction and disease. But it would unleash a new cohort of educated scientists, doctors and inventors who would contribute immeasurably to technological progress. And buy the products which they had created. Writing in the Guardian, Larry Elliott explains just how close we might have come [1]
But we didn’t. At the time of writing it looks as the Middle East will tip into another war. There are calls for the abolition of co-operative international bodies like the UN or the ECHR. The possibility of the United States succumbing to another bout of Donald Trump looks a very real possibility. Glaciers melt, sea levels rise, and weather systems fail at a faster and faster pace. One day, historians will crawl over the rubble of the 2020s and ask “how did this age come so close to getting it right-and then go so terribly wrong? And they will cite Larry’s article as exhibit number one.
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