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Seven Global Shifts
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| The National Intelligence Council, you've said that they anticipate seven global shifts. | |
| What might the seven global shifts be? | |
| We're seeing, you know, they begin in their analysis, much like I do, with the megatrends. | |
| I'm pulling out my notes so I don't make sure I lose any of these. | |
| And they talk about, you know, game changers and what the world is evolving to. | |
| But I look at, for instance, the growth of the middle class. | |
| I look at the advancement of technologies, which we've alluded to today. | |
| We look at the widespread aging of the West. | |
| Now, what does that mean? | |
| Because the United States and Western Europe becoming older, that's encouraging immigration, immigration from poor, less developed countries, because we need working people. | |
| That's what Angela Merkel called for, and they ended up getting 1.5 million people out in the Middle East and North Africa. | |
| And so that's going to change the demographics of our country. | |
| It's going to change the demographics a lot. | |
| Urbanization. | |
| Today, we find that we're becoming more of an urbanized world. | |
| In 1800, there was one city in the world that had a million people. | |
| That was Beijing. | |
| In the year 2000, there were, what, 378 cities that had a million. | |
| By the year 2025, which isn't long, we're going to have over 600. | |
| Now, at some point, you know, in the next 15, 20 years, you know, 60% of the world is going to live in cities. | |
| And in places like Africa, 85% of people are going to live in cities. | |
| That has resource implications. | |
| It has pandemic implications. | |
| It has implications for the spread of ideologies. | |
| And it also has, when you have combat, as a warrior, I look at how difficult it is to fight in cities. | |
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People Going In All Sorts
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| Technology, all of these implications. | |
| So we deal with that. | |
| Certainly, U.S. energy independence is critical. | |
| I see a non-traditional spiritual movements are really skyrocketing. | |
| People going in all sorts of bizarre directions. | |
| They're abandoning the faith of their fathers and of their mothers, and they're going in just freakish sorts of directions. | |
| We see others. | |