Quote (Black XistenZ @ Nov 15 2022 09:51pm)
Over the coming decades, Europe will lose ground relative to the strongest non-Western countries like South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, China, Canada or Australia. Whether they will actually lose ground to the US remains to be seen. And even if places like India or Brazil will close the gap, it will remain very wide. None of us will live long enough to see the day when living in Brazil, India, Tanzania or Mexico will be preferable for the average citizen to life in declining Europe.
If the countries you listed were surpass the West they would have to endure the possible global destabilization caused by the increase of their consumption and emissions to present-day Western levels. I doubt they will reach that infrastructure and i doubt they would do it with clean energy in our lifetime. Those countries would be done for in the ecocrisis that is to come in such a scenario. Both in terms of climate change and in terms of future scarcity.
This post was edited by Neptunus on Nov 15 2022 04:01pm