Automation: AI will impact many jobs
From improving efficiency (meaning fewer workers to accomplish the same quantity of work output), or eliminating jobs all together, AI-based technology will have large impacts on labor. This is how,…
Climate: Urban heat islands?
Climate Central thinks the urban heat island effect is raising temperatures in and around Houston by quite a bit.
Demographics: Declining population points to future pay increases
Declining fertility rates are just starting to impact the availability of labor. In just a few years, this gets very serious.
Demographics: A difference between 70s’/80’s labor market and today
The Career Goal of the Moment Is a ‘Lazy-Girl Job’ (msn.com) Like quiet quitting before it, the lazy-girl job is the latest iteration of 20- and 30-somethings of both genders…
Should we all be “preppers”?
Preppers is the term given to those who plan for disasters – for some, like us, this means the ordinary situation like power outages, while for others, it is preparing…
Demographics: 1 in 4 young adults in the UK say they will never have children
Half say they don’t want kids because they want to focus on themselves. Another 1 in 4 say they aren’t sure if they will have kids. A large percentage live…
Energy: Electrification of everything may not work
Well bummer: It would take a wind farm on about 100,000 acres to generate the same amount of electricity as a one-gigawatt nuclear plant that typically occupies less than 1…
Economy Follow Up: It’s all going to crash!
Well, probably. Some day. But the last two years have not been good for the naysayer expert predictions of imminent doom: Ask anybody on Wall Street last December what was…
Demographics: Global shrinking populations
And many, many more have shrinking populations. India thinks they have already dropped below a 2.1 fertility rate while the UN puts them just over 2.1. China is well below…
Follow up: Yellowstone’s “first fire of 2023”
Amid climate change sweeps week, the media got excited about Yellowstone's first fire of the season. It was minor and normal for this date.