Welcome to the Great Disruption

U.S. intelligence community advisers in a new report map out shifts over the next five to 20 years in everything from the nature of work to demographics.

Girls line up at a feeding centre in Mogadishu, Somalia, on March 9 amid a severe drought threatening famine in the country. More extreme weather, water, and soil stress, and food insecurity will disrupt societies into the future, according to the Global Trends report.UN photograph by Tobin Jones

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

March 22, 2017

TORONTO—It is correct to call the times in which we live the Great Disruption. It is hard to think of many periods in human history where such a combination of disruptive trends has threatened the very foundations of society and the global order. This is not only a time when governments at home a...

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