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Intelligence forecast sees a post-coronavirus world upended by climate change and splintering societies

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By Shane Harris

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U.S. intelligence officials have little comfort to offer a pandemic-weary planet about where the world is heading in the next 20 years. Short answer: It looks pretty bleak.

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Looking over the time horizon, it finds a world unsettled by the pandemic, the ravages of climate change — which will propel mass migration — and a widening gap between what people demand from their leaders and what they can actually deliver.

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Ultimately, the societies that succeed will be those that can adapt to change, but also forge social consensus around what should be done, the authors write. In a splintering world, that may be the hardest scenario to imagine.

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Hazards Epidemic and Pandemic
Themes Climate change Human mobility
Country and region United States of America

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