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Global Trends 2025 report paints grim backdrop

While we are increasingly optimistic about the potential for a broad range of innovators and entrepreneurs to help shape a better future, with a new Phoenix Economy likely to take flight in the decade 2010-2020, we keep a wary weather eye out for evidence of countervailing trends.  And if that’s what you’re looking for, look no further than the latest report from the U.S. National Intelligence Council.  Entitled Global Trends 2025, much of it makes bleak reading indeed.  Among its key conclusions:

• The whole international system - as constructed following WWII - will be revolutionised.  Not only will new players - Brazil, Russia, India and China - have a seat at the international high table, but they will bring new stakes and impose new rules of the game.
• The unprecedented transfer of wealth roughly from West to East now under way will continue for the foreseeable future.
• The potential for conflict will increase, owing to political turbulence in parts of the greater Middle East.
• And, the part that relates most closely to what Volans plans to work on, unprecedented economic growth, coupled with 1.5 billion more people, will put pressure on resources - particularly energy, food, and water - raising the specter of scarcities emerging as demand outstrips supply.

The address for this blog entry is: http://www.volans.com/2008/11/global-trends-2025-report-paints-grim-backdrop/.

- John Elkington

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