And outside the realm of economics, the United States has just experienced a spectacular diplomatic disaster. America has spent decades trying to cultivate good relations with India, which could be a useful counterweight to China.
The world will go on without the United States.
How did I miss this?
The dinosaurs ruled the world for 150 million years. Humans have only "ruled" it for a couple of hundred years.
Turns out the world would actually be much better off WITHOUT humans.
Humans should really think about that.
Humans have been a dominant force shaping the planet for the last 3,000 to 50,000 years, with the idea of the "Anthropocene""a new geological epoch defined by human influence"being widely debated but increasingly aligned with the industrial and atomic ages, which began roughly 200 to 250 years ago, according to a Scientific American article.
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