ten items to be wary of in the coming years here in the empire; 

 

In American politics a warning rarely stays a warning for long. Within days it becomes an argument about which side is entitled to make it, and an argument is far easier to ignore.

The record is unusually thorough. James Hansen, a climatologist at NASA, told a Senate committee in June 1988 that the greenhouse effect had already been detected and was already changing the weather. Two years later a former Nixon aide named Kevin Phillips published a book arguing that American wealth had reconcentrated to 1920s levels and that the political consequence would be populism rather than reform. Edward Snowden flew to Hong Kong in June 2013 and explained, across eight days of interviews, that the National Security Agency was collecting the metadata of essentially every American telephone call. Bill Gates stood on a conference stage in 2015 and said that if anything killed more than ten million people in the coming decades, it would most likely be a respiratory virus, and that the world was unprepared. (Before You Scroll Any Further, Watch This Video — The Next Warning Could Be the One You Can’t Afford to Ignore.)

Nobody on that list was guessing, which is the part that ought to unsettle a reader...........more...........