I try hard to give people insights into trends affecting our world. One of them is the way that declining birth rates will ultimately translate into shrinking cities. read more »
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Save Our Cities
With office districts and tower blocks losing their lustre, we need to rethink what cities are for. It’s time to create better neighbourhoods where people will want to spend their time. read more »
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Cobalt Slavery, Child Labor, Ecological Destruction and Death
Global cobalt demand soared with the advent of cell phones and laptop computers. It exploded with the arrival of electric vehicles and now is skyrocketing in tandem with government EV mandates and subsidies. read more »
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Meet the Woke Activists Behind the Roald Dahl Book Purge
Over the weekend, the publisher Puffin announced that it had scrubbed language deemed “insensitive” and “non-inclusive” from the works of Roald Dahl, the classic children’s book author read more »
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Amtrak Carried 86% of Pre-Pandemic PM in May
Amtrak carried 492 million passenger-miles in May 2023, which was just 86.4 percent of the 569 million passenger-miles it carried in the same month of 2019, according to Amtrak’s latest read more »
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California: No Growth to 2060 per State Projections
The state of California Department of Finance (DOF) has issued interim population projections indicating that in 2060, there will be 39,508,000 residents in the state. read more »
Demographically, Cities Will 'Always' Lose to Suburbs
I often check in on NewGeography.com, a website led by southern California-based urban studies professor and famed suburbanist Joel Kotkin. read more »
Artificial Intelligence is the Crack Cocaine of the Digital Age
The rise of artificial intelligence may be rescuing the tech oligarchy, but its current trajectory could hasten our steps towards what virtual reality guru Rony Abovitz calls ‘computational autocracy’. read more »
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High-Speed Rail Proposal Runs into High-Cost Problems
At the June meeting of the Legislature’s Joint Transportation Committee a consultant presented a review of Ultra High-Speed Rail studies that have been done for the I-5 corridor. As is often the case, most of the findings were couched in language crafted to avoid offending anyone and included many caveats about data availability and assumptions that need to be further refined. Despite that, the findings cast doubt on the feasibility of the proposal. Key findings include: read more »
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Why Globalism Failed
Not so long ago, the West was captivated by visions of the ‘end of history’. Francis Fukuyama, Thomas Friedman, Kenichi Ohmae and others envisaged the permanent triumph of a global neoliberal order. read more »
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