Social Unrest: Global Tinderbox
Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 06:00PM This is from the Economist, December 28, 2009:
2010 Could be a Year that Sparks Unrest
If the world appears to have escaped relatively unscathed by social unrest in 2009, despite suffering the worst recession since the 1930s, it might just prove the lull before the storm. Despite a tentative global recovery, for many people around the world economic and social conditions will continue to deteriorate in 2010.
An estimated 60 million people worldwide will lose their jobs. Poverty rates will continue to rise, with 200 million people at risk of joining the ranks of those living on less than $2.00 a day. But poverty alone does not spark unrest— exaggerated income inequalities, poor governance, lack of social provision and ethnic tensions are all elements of the brew that foments unrest.
I sure hope you're prepared? And if not, why? Do you really think that all this is just a game and that life will always go on as it has before?
Time to wake up and face reality, dude.
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