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While such ideas are not for everyone, certain Continental countries secretly prefer Britain’s disjointed scenarios, with some heads of governments even considering their countries’ commitments reversible.
Against the backdrop of these two equally plausible scenarios, we will know only in a few years whether December’s Bali declaration on climate change was just rhetoric or the start of a global effort to counter it.
Shell traditionally uses its scenarios to prepare for the future without expressing a preference for one over another.
That is what the World Economic Forum (WEF) asked at a recent meeting in Abu Dhabi that focused on the future of governance under three potential scenarios arising from the ongoing information revolution.
Each of these scenarios is an extrapolation of a current trend.
Exploring potential future scenarios, as the WEF has done, is an important step in the right direction.
But while Trump’s opponents might like to remove him from power, any of these scenarios could be highly damaging to the US and the rest of the world.
Nor can one discount scenarios in which artificial genes disable beneficial natural genes, or even cause outbreaks of new diseases.
Even in the best of recovery scenarios, policymakers would be ill-advised to kick the can down the road on structural reforms and fiscal measures needed to mitigate risk premia.
It featured six scenarios of possible futures, including a world in which full three-dimensional casts of human faces can be created from a single strand of DNA; buildings are covered with a skin capable of photosynthesis, taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen; and death can be beaten by bringing back those who choose to be cryogenically preserved.
Anyone older than 60 today will hardly notice the difference between the two scenarios.
These are all plausible scenarios.
The middle of the range of scenarios considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects that atmospheric CO2 concentrations will reach nearly three times their pre-industrial level in 2100.
This work is based on standard scenarios, and carries the typical caveats of predictions far into the future.
Nevertheless, it is not hard to imagine scenarios in which the dollar collapses.
In principle, one can also think of scenarios in which the dollar shoots up, but overall these seem less likely.
But there are other possible scenarios, some of which could turn out to be black swans.
The Education Cannot Wait initiative is rolling out more programs to address educational needs in crisis and emergency scenarios.
Some scenarios, including an “electronic Pearl Harbor,” sound alarmist, but they illustrate the diffusion of power from central governments to individuals.
Because they do not happen often, they are far removed from the smooth center of the probability distribution from which baseline scenarios are drawn.
The obsession with doomsday scenarios diverts attention from far more consequential scientific issues, such as securing nuclear power plants and developing safer methods for conducting biological research.
A year ago, forecasting a victory by either would have been considered absurd; today, we must admit that such scenarios are all too possible.
In futuristic scenarios, they promise that genetic information will enhance control over both behavior and disease.
What matters for markets is not what happens in normal times, or even what happens when uncertainty and volatility rise; what markets care about are possible scenarios in truly adverse conditions.
Most Western commentators continue to over-simplify this debate, framing it in terms of the proverbial China hard-landing scenarios that have been off the mark for 20 years.
Oil prices are coming down from their highs during the Iraq war and, under plausible scenarios, may be heading for a greater fall.
In the best of scenarios, what will happen is likely to fall short of the major short-run fiscal expansion Europe needs.
These drastic scenarios might not materialize if the world succeeds in mitigating climate change.
Asian countries, especially, should prepare for worst-case scenarios, and implement far-sighted national policies, such as Kiribati’s “migration with dignity” program, which provides education and vocational training to citizens of the low-lying Pacific island state to improve their chances of finding decent work abroad.
The two most likely scenarios, then, are government continuity or predictable change (the right has been expected to capture the presidency for years).
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