Will the Future Be Abundant?

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🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today, humanity is thriving, but there are fears the good times will not last. Will tomorrow be better than today? Those arguing “yes” say people have better access to resources and technological advances are making us more prosperous. Those arguing “no” say there are widening socio-economic disparities, our globalized world is bound to collapse, and we’re not doing enough to fight climate change. Now we debate: Will the Future Be Abundant? Arguing Yes: Peter Diamandis, Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation Arguing No: Peter Zeihan, Geopolitical Strategist Xenia Wickett, Geopolitical strategist and moderator at Wickett Advisory and Trustee of Transparency International UK, is the guest moderator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Open to Debate, I'm John Don Van.
0:02.5	This week we have a debate that steps back, zooms out a little bit,
0:05.5	to look at where we as a species are headed.
0:08.0	The question we're asking is,
0:09.5	will the future be abundant?
0:12.0	And despite taking this long view, with all of the current news of war and climate change
0:16.8	and AI, this conversation has a lot of resonance right now.
0:20.0	I'm handing off the range for this debate and trust me you in very capable hands with our guest moderator Zenya Wicket.
0:25.3	Zenya is an expert in international affairs and that expertise has taken her all over the world,
0:30.0	including to the White House and to the State Department
0:32.8	where she led South Asia policy and helped to set up the Department of Homeland Security.
0:37.1	These days she runs her own business, it's called Wicked Advisory,
0:40.4	which offers coaching and geopolitical strategy to organizations and to
0:44.0	executives. I'm delighted that she was able to join us for this conversation and to
0:47.8	have her step in as moderator. So now on to the show here is Zeniaweckett.
0:51.8	In 2011, the Pew Research Center conducted a study that showed for the first time that more Americans
0:59.6	thought that their children were going to be worse off than themselves than thought otherwise.
1:04.1	That trend has continued.
1:06.1	Imprinted in our basic genetic makeup is the commitment to ensure the propagation of the species,
1:11.9	and not just its continuation, but in such a way that we are
1:15.1	healthier and happier and is in this context that I can't think of a more
1:19.5	important question to answer than whether the future will be abundant or not. What world are we
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