What Comes After the Coming Climate Anarchy?
BY PARAG KHANNA
AUGUST 15, 2022
7:55 AM EDT
Khanna
is the founder of FutureMap and author of the new book MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us.
In 2021,
global carbon dioxide emissions reached 36.3
billion tons, the highest volume ever recorded. This year, the number
of international refugees will cross 30 million, also the highest figure ever.
As sea levels and temperatures rise and geopolitical tensions flare, it’s hard
to avoid the conclusion that humanity is veering towards systemic breakdown.
The superpowers will be no salvation: Locked in a “new Cold War,’ the U.S. careens
between populism and incompetence, while China remains locked down at home and
alienates many nations abroad.
We’re not
very good at predicting the next five days, let alone five years. Our daily
headlines underscore how we are overwhelmed by crises: COVID-19, natural
disasters, ruptured supply chains, food shortages, international conflicts,
spiking oil prices, failing states, refugee flows, and so forth. But these are
not isolated incidents. They are manifestations of complexity—a
global system in which the environment, economy, demographics, politics, and
technology constantly collide in unpredictable ways. It was not a single event
that caused the Roman and Mayan civilizations to collapse, but rather this
complex collision of chain reactions.
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