In 2008 I created The Crash Course. If you haven’t seen it, well, you really should. It’s both very outdated and still spot on.
In it I made the case that by looking through a resource lens we could come to this conclusion: The next twenty years are going to be completely unlike the past twenty years.
There are lots of ways to look at the world – geopolitically, spiritually, ecologically – but I’ve found that resources have both power predictive and explanatory powers.
Now that we’re more than half-way through that 20-year period it’s fair to ask how the Crash Course predictions have held up.
The record reveals that…