Originally posted by aslyfox been reading some interesting articles on what faces the world in the future . . . any one want to discuss any of this ?
I've been thinking about it a bit, though I've worked at home for years and not much changed for me on that front other than setting up my wife to work from home. To my mind pandemics are not the most serious threat, but rather what climate change is going to do to infrastructure and therefore to our ability to respond, work and stay supplied. Already flooding on top of the pandemic is adding to the misery, hurricane season is around the corner, and here where last year we had to flee our homes because of wildfires, and after this year's meager rainy season, again has us looking forward to the threat of being burned out of existence. So one of the biggest
external shifts I can see is an increased dependence on mail order and shipping companies, and products that help people survive off the grid like generators, foods that are easy to produce and that keep, internet speed and reliability . . .
But the change I hope to see most is
internal—that of understanding the power of unity between all human beings no matter what our beliefs, orientation, race, gender, etc. It's not like we haven't witnessed the benefit of this, such as when after Pearl Harbor people were more willing to forget their prejudices and chauvinism in order to pull together. Now many of the big companies are touting "we are all in this together," and of course if things get better they'll slide back "to every person for him/herself" in practice, but perhaps the relentless wave of destruction on the horizon will at last teach the survival-power-of-unity lesson once and for all.