I'm convinced humanity permanently improves the living condition. We all are just individual temporal parts of humanity. Humanity might succeed to be eternal, as individual, however we are not. There are organizations that keep track of our (humanity) progress. Such as https://www.humanprogress.org ; https://www.lomborg.com and YouTuber Cleo Abram . We are living in a transition time. This makes it hard to track what really is going on. I have a view on the big picture I want to share with you. Energy We have been lucky to discover coal; oil and gas. And we found ways to utilize it. But we are in or near to peak-oil . We have to transit to other energy sources or start using far less energy. Sourcing I think, that we have no other option than indirect (solar, wind, earth-heat) and direct nuclear energy in combination with better utilization. Because energy demand and harvesting are mostly not in sync from a time perspective, we also need better storage solutions. Solar and wind ar...

In my view, we (humankind) are in a globalization and localization process at the same time. The reason is that we always have been local tribe people. But through modern communications (internet) are becoming globally more integrated. It is a fact that the global integration language is international English. I don't want to focus on Nations anymore. The new world order (I think) will be along the lines of metropolitan areas. In the transition phase, the Nations and all their old world order systems are inconveniences we have to live with. I do have my ideas about my land of birth. But in the same time, I can see that its future is not in Den Haag. De growing center of this metropolitan area is going to be is Eindhoven, not Amsterdam nor Den Haag. Amsterdam, where all my family is from, will become just one of the blobs of Ringstad. Ringstad is my name for the Dutch-speaking metropolis that is slowly but surely replacing what the Dutch call Randstad. It covers all the...