What is that going to look like? How does one hedge against that eventuality?
Stephen Emmott ends his book Ten Billion with the line "Teach my son how to use a gun."
Obviously I have not read the book, but do you think it holds up in 2025?
The Roman Empire has been crumbling for 400 years, so it's likely that we won't experience the collapse of society as described in most history books either - life is too short for that. Unless a black swan comes along…
To answer your question, I like to come back to the book because it's written in the style of Dan Brown :) - short, punchy chapters. And it still makes sense (to me).
Also, biofuels based on most crops other than sugar cane, in addition to not being very helpful in the fight against AGW, triggered large price spikes and political turmoil in a dozen different countries at once. Perhaps you heard of this event, we call it the Arab Spring. We are still dealing with the fallout of it.
Does this mean that politics will finally get out of everything and give me back my sports that will be free of the constant political pandering?
But “era of lies” doesn’t sound nice because nobody wants to be a liar… so “post-truth” sounds better: “I'm telling the truth. Almost. But I'm not lying.”