The Economist – Paranormal Activity https://paranormalactivity.org Exploring The Unknown Tue, 27 Dec 2022 15:00:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 The World Ahead 2023: five stories to watch out for https://paranormalactivity.org/the-world-ahead-2023-five-stories-to-watch-out-for/ https://paranormalactivity.org/the-world-ahead-2023-five-stories-to-watch-out-for/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2022 15:00:23 +0000 https://paranormalactivity.org/the-world-ahead-2023-five-stories-to-watch-out-for/

What stories should you be following in 2023? From India becoming the world’s most populous country, to an illegal drug that might be approved as a medicine, The Economist offers its annual look at the year ahead.

00:00 – The World Ahead 2023
00:35 – India’s population potential
04:24 – Psychedelic medicines
08:01 – Japan’s markets mayhem?
12:37 – Repairing the world
15:38 – The coronation’s colonial concerns

Read more on The World Ahead 2023: https://econ.st/3YyANzd

Read Tom Standage’s editor’s note on The World Ahead 2023: https://econ.st/3WM5wY3

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Has China reached the peak of its powers? https://econ.st/3G3fgY8

India is continuing on its path to majoritarian chauvinism: https://econ.st/3jjZKOw

Will China’s economy ever overtake America’s in size? https://econ.st/3v0p0Mn

The Bank of Japan shocks investors: https://econ.st/3VkSbV8

Japan’s bond-market peg could snap: https://econ.st/3WiaVpT

Repairing clothes is becoming more fashionable: https://econ.st/3YJfCud

Ketamine, psilocybin and MDMA are coming to the medicine cabinet: https://econ.st/3W9G7aN

More American clinics are offering ketamine to treat depression: https://econ.st/3G3cBO3

Sensible policy on psychedelic drugs is growing more common: https://econ.st/3jeiak2

Psychedelic therapy shows great promise. More states should legalise it: https://econ.st/3V9pfj0

King Charles III’s coronation is a real marketing opportunity: https://econ.st/3BMcAf1

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If global temperatures rise three degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the results would be catastrophic. It’s an entirely plausible scenario, and this film shows you what it would look like.

00:00 – What will a 3°C world look like?
00:57 – Climate change is already having devastating effects
02:58 – How climate modelling works
04:06 – Nowhere is safe from global warming
05:20 – The impact of prolonged droughts
08:24 – Rising sea levels, storm surges and flooding
10:27 – Extreme heat and wet-bulb temperatures
12:51 – Increased migration and conflict
14:26 – Adaptation and mitigation are crucial

Read our briefing about a three degree world: https://econ.st/3nJiXYS

View all of The Economist’s climate change coverage: https://econ.st/3b1RwU2

Sign up to our climate change newsletter: https://econ.st/3b1dtCQ

Listen to our new climate podcast, “To a Lesser Degree”: https://econ.st/3b1RuLU

Read our special report on stabilising the climate: https://econ.st/3nw6CXK

Listen to an episode of “The Intelligence” podcast about a 3°C world: https://econ.st/2Zw3Utv

What would different levels of global warming look like? https://econ.st/2ZBsZDb

How climate modelling works: https://econ.st/3jNmlAN

Read about the IPCC’s starkest warning yet about climate change: https://econ.st/3nxagk6

What to look out for at COP26: https://econ.st/2ZHngeZ

Why the COP26 climate summit will be both crucial and disappointing: https://econ.st/3Gvvibz

Broken promises, energy shortages and covid-19 will hamper COP26: https://econ.st/3EnDBnU

Why damage from climate change will be widespread and sometimes surprising: https://econ.st/3Et40kq

Children born today are likely to face seven times more extreme weather events than their grandparents: https://econ.st/3GyuXEO

How to prepare for rising sea levels: https://econ.st/3EmtO1t

Podcast: The growing risk of deadly heatwaves: https://econ.st/3nFWFH8

The danger posed by heatwaves needs to be taken more seriously: https://econ.st/3k7SbZd

What if firms were forced to pay for frying the planet: https://econ.st/3nGpseT

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The World in 2021 will start to look beyond covid-19: to the launch of an asteroid-smashing space probe, the next step in the fight against climate change and China’s supremacy at the box office. Here are five stories to watch out for.

00:00 – Top five stories for 2021
00:39 – Democracy under threat
04:17 – The electric revolution revs up
06:55 – A chance to turn a corner on climate change
10:39 – China v Hollywood: battle of the box offices
14:40 – Defending the planet

Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3qJCAk5

Find all of the articles in World In 2021: https://econ.st/3a4z5Pr

Read our latest coverage of covid-19: https://econ.st/3abooL1

Find all our climate-change coverage: https://econ.st/3oBoLSX

2020: the year when everything changed: https://econ.st/2Kytkyy

The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights: https://econ.st/3oIb0BI

How would-be autocrats used covid-19 as an excuse to grab more power: https://econ.st/3qJ29l8

Why democracy failed in the Middle East: https://econ.st/2Wl9pps

Electric vehicles: who will rule the Teslaverse? https://econ.st/3qK0ITG

Countries should seize the moment to flatten the climate curve: https://econ.st/2JICCYY

Paris-anniversary climate pledges bring progress but fall short: https://econ.st/3nxNB60

The world’s energy system must be transformed completely: https://econ.st/37V83Y5

Why it’s time to make coal history: https://econ.st/39YIvf9

The World in 2021: the pandemic has shaken up the movie business: https://econ.st/39YGWxS

Daily chart: Hollywood is losing ground in China: https://econ.st/39ZvUIs

How Hollywood should deal with Chinese censors: https://econ.st/2VYlocv

Why easier access to space imposes new environmental responsibilities on humanity: https://econ.st/340i8Sp

A new moon race has begun: https://econ.st/3qMu7fM

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