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
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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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The Economist came close with its prediction about would be autocrats attempting to destroy democracy, but could not imagine that Trump was plotting the Jan 6 coup attempt.
I welcome King Vlad Van Putin! 🙏💯
Babbling idiots
I don't do Chinese.💯 You might be eating dog or cat.🤮
No great film can be made under the kind of censorship in China
bts jin rm suga covid-19😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Really autocratic leaders used covid 19 as excuses of infringing on freedom and cilvil rights
Of All countries where Democracy is under threat. You manage to pick Uganda. Nonsense.
Wow 2020 was a strange year , Events and meeting that should have happened in that year were more than any years , Elections , Paris agreement, Olympic ….
Believe and you will see all these promises they are nothing but ink on paper only 🤣???
"This sounds like a plot of Hollywood blockbuster"
Then the movie comes.
Don't Look Up (2021)
Anyone else feel like, we still have human bodies, but practical monkey brains? I think we desperately need the 90 percent not working, and had it, before the aliens or whoever, revealed themselves as our masters
Family threatened me covid last night.. lol like I care but let's see if I get it now. Lol
This was interesting.
when you looked at these stories in 2022, none of them had made the headlines.
The Earth is not a spinning globe but is in fact Flat, Stationary and Non-Rotating, fixed on Pillars and under the Firmament which separates the waters above from the waters below. Praise God~🙏👑🕊️
4:42 hammer will stop producing electric cars?hah🤔and nothing about blockchains and crypto currency
I change my mind i don't want us to be so technologically reliant because it would mean sacrificing our privacy, when the Starlink Satellite Grid is read and everyone starts to be connected across the entire planet officially (a lot of counties don't actually have internet and many rural areas) welp they can know everything about everyone and they will store that data, be able to track what you search and buy, where you buy like everything…
We think it's bad now how it's used against us oh no no i don't think so… and it's why i've hugely pulled back my internet presence and left other social media sites, i'm still a bit open when i talk about some things but cos of certain things that have happened i'm careful how i word things now it's true but vague enough that you can't truly read more into it that's not there even if you wanted to lol.
The internet is also just the internet too not real life so we have to remember to keep ourselves in real life and remain present in it but i'm afraid constant use of the internet and computers isn't going to be a choice and we're already so reliant on them so we have to understand what it truly means for us.
I like Star Trek and the future that represents but i think i'd like ours to be different cos they hugely tuned people in their grid where their earth citizenship was tied in with their citizen account that they needed to access everything including what is their internet which is more of a database and archive of information than a world wide web, but they can see everything they do and often overruled their privacy anyway, i don't like the idea of that being our future and we're already heading into it, i hope that others learn that's not how we want it to be.
3:53 Vaccines pushed as helping to resist tyranny X) That's one I haven't heard…
Be careful,for. the lies that we're set in play is just now beginning.way more to come.
The future of the has already been paid for. Game over for everyone. Till it's time. And if the people of the world don't come togather and take our country back It may be already to late.People are already living it. Peace and love to all.🇺🇲😆
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