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- Tourism, pandemics and climate change
- Tourism gets hit hard by pandemics as countries close down their borders to protect their citizens. Travel within countries is also restricted, and businesses are shut down, resulting in cleaner air as many fewer polluting vehicles are on the move.
- Money
- Many, including many political parties, are focussed upon money as the solution to their problems, but is that the right way to view it?
- Heroes to dictators
- Many countries emerged from struggles with colonial oppression, only to have their once heroes turn into the oppressors. Now this disease is spreading to middle-class democracies.
- The Conscience Party
- Having seen that parties are basically working against the aims of democracy, how do we get to change democracy when it is governed by parties that don't want to give up their power?
- A new retail model
- With the increasing internationalisation of the clothing and other manufaturing sectors, mainly to take advantage of cheap labour, bricks-and-mortar retail stores in developed countries have taken a hit.
- A new approach to education
- Most people's education is based around a progressive accumulation of large amounts of knowledge and skills, but is that good enough to keep up with the plethora of knowledge that is presented to us?
- Politicians still don't get it
- Many politicians still seem to fail to understand why they are not trusted by voters. Hint: Their allegiance is not to their voters.
- Trusting in big business
- Governments are placing a lot of trust in businesses being the powerhouse of our economies, but investigations into the operations of big businesses show that that trust may be misplaced.
- Real peace in the middle east
- The official position taken by many governments is that a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict will bring peace.
- Political parties
- It is hard to imagine any modern democracy without political parties, but their very nature and modus operandi undermines the democratic process.