Backup Plan

The Limits to Growth. Simulator.

  The Limits to growth simulator. You can play around with it. Also see: The Limits to Growth: The 30-year Update   What is your backup plan? Talk to us.   

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The Five-hundred-year era of dominance of Western civilization is over, the age of Eurasia is coming.

‘The Five-hundred-year era of dominance of Western civilization is over, the age of Eurasia is coming. For several hundred years now, the West has gotten used to the fact that we are the most beautiful, the most intelligent, the most developed and the richest. One day to see and realize that we are no longer […]

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China’s Libertarian Medical City. New destination for medical tourism? Destination of last hope?

Daxue: Medical institutions within the zone can import and use pharmaceuticals and medical devices already available in other countries as clinically urgent items before obtaining approval in China. This allows domestic patients to access innovative treatments without the need to travel abroad…. The medical products to be used in the pilot zone must possess a CE mark, an […]

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Is Próspera, the charter city on the Honduran island of Roatán, in trouble?

  A recent article in Foreign Policy has gained attention for its negative portrayal of Próspera, the charter city on the Honduran island of Roatán. For context, Próspera operates as an “employment and economic development zone” (ZEDE), creating a semiautonomous jurisdiction that can establish some of its own laws. The project is supported by prominent […]

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A more relaxed life in Europe for Americans. Ready to move or interested in a backup plan?

A lower cost of living, affordable healthcare, an enhanced quality of life, and better bread—these are just a few reasons why many Americans are drawn to life across the Atlantic in countries like Portugal, France, and Italy. However, for those who have made the move permanent, the appeal often lies in the absence of smaller […]

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Anarcho-tyranny

This Vs this   What we have in this country today, then, is both anarchy (the failure of the state to enforce the laws) and, at the same time, tyranny—the enforcement of laws by the state for oppressive purposes; the criminalization of the law-abiding and innocent through exorbitant taxation, bureaucratic regulation, the invasion of privacy, […]

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