Migraine warning for the closing credits.
the index found that if current trends continue, the world will not meet all 17 Sustainable Development Goals until 2082. The goals, adopted by all 193 U.N. member countries in 2015, focus on improving the environment, health, sustainability, equality and prosperity by 2030.
If countries donât take urgent steps, the COVID-19 pandemic could push back achievement by another 10 years, to 2092 â more than 60 years after the target date, the index found.
There are important outliers that have declined on social progress. Most notably, the United States continues to backslide, declining both in absolute terms and relative to its wealthy, world-power peers, ranking just 28th in social progress and is only one of three countries declining in social progress over the past decade .
I wonder if Chinaâs success with clamping down on Hong Kong has made them consider the same with Taiwan.
Itâs interesting, partly because it was the subject of so many late Cold War, early post-Cold War wargame and sim scenarios. The general mood was that If the U.S. backs Taiwan, China doesnât have a chance, but if it doesnât, Taiwan doesnât have a chance. However, stuff has shifted around a bit and China has become more powerful over the years.
I donât think theyâd push it if we push back. But testing the waters to see if we will is fitting. Their leadership is neither dumb enough to go against us nor unambitious enough to not try to get what they can (or at least find out if thatâs an option).
Interesting times, we may live in.
now we know who the protagonist is
there may be a shocking plot twist in a few months, leading to a cliffhanger at the end of the season
If the publisher decides to meddle and airs the episodes out of order, then weâre all screwed.
And thatâs not even accounting for the possibility that the writers decide to shoot for a time travel plot early on.
The last shot of the last episode is a close-up of his chart. We see his name is âCharles Orwell Vidal, IXXâ
Pretty sure the âcivil rights uprisingâ arc was supposed to be before âdeadly airborne pandemicâ
NEXT SEASON: either âalien invasionâ or maybe âsatan walks the earthâ
But the deadlier pandemic comes after the alien invasion. Since they have no immune systems, they are exceedingly vulnerable, and they break herd immunity where it exists.
Somebody let me know when the Nightbreed come out of Midian. Iâve always wanted to meet them.
I think this could be generalized to the entire federal government.