- The maker of iPhones has already replaced 60,000 workers with robots and may replace up to 360,000 by 2020.
- A two acre agrihood in Detroit is providing free food to 2,000 families.
- The salary ratio between CEOs and average employees is 340 in the US, so CEOs outearn average employees on the first workday of the year.
- SOCIETY could collapse at some point in the 2020s as political turmoil sweeps the Western world.
- The US added 156,000 jobs. Unemployment was 4.7%. Job participation remains at 62.7%.
- Global surface temperatures averaged 1.3C of the threshold 1.5C with North Pole temperatures 50F above average.
- 94% of the net job growth in the past decade was in the Gig Economy.
- For 4 days, Scotland produced over 100% of the country’s electrical needs, with a peak of 132%.
- 9 people hold half the world’s wealth.
- At least one Chinese province has had negative GDP (~2%) instead of the official positive GDP (6.7%).
- Atmospheric CO2 has exceeded 400 ppm for the last twelve months, currently ~ 406.1 ppm.
Pretending Not To Panic 