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Parag Khanna: Why Mobility is Destiny

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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The Global North and the Global South

There's no question that there's a set of forces conspiring to disincentivize young people to simply adopt that mentality. The demographic question arises for me from your charts is you have the leveling and then declining of human population starting in the global North and moving steadily in the global South. That means the famous population pyramids with lots of people, young people at the bottom and not very old people at the top are going vertical. It looks like it's headed toward more conflict rather than more resolution.

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