Articles by Richard Worzel
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Topics: Biosciences, Business, Economy, Environment, Society, Technology, Geopolitics, General
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Here are some of the key trends that are going to shape the year ahead.
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Topics: Business, Demographics, Economy, Environment, Technology, General
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The year ahead holds significant risks and opportunities for the utility industries.
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Topics: Biosciences, Business, Demographics, Economy, Environment, Geopolitics, General, Society, Technology
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Although there are more than 12 things going on in the world, I believe these are the most significant trends for the year ahead.
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Topics: Business, Society, Economy, Environment, General
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The Earth is a complex system. Indeed, it is a series of interlocking, overlapping, complex systems, and such systems often affect each other in surprising ways. Accordingly, although at first it may seem strange to say that climate change will increase both the number of earthquakes and volcanoes, that actually is the case. Here's how it works:
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Topics: Biosciences, Economy, Business, Demographics, Environment, Technology, General
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Like all years, there will be good news and bad in 2011. Because of the bad planning, bad judgment, and bad behavior of previous years and decades, some of the potential bad news is very scary indeed, as I'll get to in a moment. The odds are that 2011 will be a not bad year, but the risks are higher than normal for economies emerging from a recession. I'm going to deal with the scarier parts first, and then move on to happier things, so bear with me.
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Topics: Biosciences, Business, Demographics, Economy, Environment, Society, Technology, General
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This is a summary of a presentation I delivered to the World Education Congress of Meeting Planners International in Vancouver, Canada at the end of July, 2010. It was part of a series of “Flash” presentations, each limited to 15 minutes, which didn’t leave a lot of time to elaborate. I’ve fleshed some of the points out here, but the most important reason for approaching the future in this way is that it is never shaped by just one thing, but rather by a confluence of forces, many of which are conflicting.
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Topics: Business, Economy, Environment, Geopolitics, Society, Technology, General
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The next 10 years will effectively settle the climate change debate, but not much else. What's more, we may be making policy in precisely the wrong way. Here's why.
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Topics: Business, Demographics, Environment, Economy, Society, General
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What follows is a summary of a presentation I gave to a symposium on the future of food. In attendance were farm producers, food processors, food retailers, and research scientists.
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Topics: Biosciences, Business, Economy, Environment, Technology, General
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What follows is a summary of a presentation that I made for the international “Pulp and Paper Strategies” conference in Miami, Florida, in mid-February of 2008. In it, I outline the major changes in our society’s use of paper, and the very positive forces at work that can benefit pulp & paper producers, particularly the emergence of the green economy.
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Topics: Economy, Business, Environment, General
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Energy is at the center of our society and economy, so the future of energy is pretty close our future. Yet, with climate change emerging as both a physical and political imperative, energy's future must and will also change.
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Topics: General, Business, Environment, Economy
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Traditional farming is dying, and will not recover. However, those farmers who can adapt face a remarkably properous future.
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Topics: Society, Geopolitics, Environment, General
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The immediate effects of hurricane Katrina - death and destruction - are obvious. The long-term consequences and downstream effects may be more important.
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Topics: Environment,Economy
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The car you'll drive 10 years from now will be significantly different than the one you're driving today, in large part because of environmental concerns. But it may not be the eco-car environmentalists are talking about, either.
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Topics: Environment
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Genetically modified foods, colloquially called 'Frankenfoods' by Europeans, are a perfect example of a complex issue being given sound-bite treatment by news media, with predictable results. Advances in genetic engineering are giving researchers the ability to modify the genes of both plants and animals, with the result that new strains of each are appearing.
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