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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; North America</title>
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		<title>What Are People Afraid Of?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2012/01/19/what-are-people-afraid-of/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2012/01/19/what-are-people-afraid-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[North America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polling suggests many Americans fear these things:


Their children&#8217;s life will be worse than their own (28%, 2011 Kaiser-Washington Post poll)
The American economy is in long-term decline (63%, 2008 Washington Post)

Global warming is a very or somewhat serious problem (65%, 2009 Pew poll)
The 21st century will be more Chinese than American (41%, 2010 Washington Post poll)
Another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Does China Become #1?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/02/15/when-does-china-become-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/02/15/when-does-china-become-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post has a handy tool for calculating when China&#8217;s economy becomes the world&#8217;s largest.
The short answer is: not very long from now.

If China grows rapidly, its economy is largest by 2025 EVEN IF the US grows at an improbably fast 4%.
If China slows to 7%, and the US grows at 4%, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is US Stability at Risk?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/19/is-us-stability-at-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/19/is-us-stability-at-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AP reported last week that some &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; leaders and Oklahoma legislators are discussing forming a militia to defend against encroachment by the federal government.
There are other indicators that extremism is finding new purchase.
In February, a man used his light plane to launch a terrorist suicide attack on a government office in Austin, Texas. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce Sterling&#8217;s State of the World</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/07/bruce-sterlings-state-of-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/07/bruce-sterlings-state-of-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Bruce Sterling offered his &#8220;State of the World 2010&#8221; on The Well this week.  A few excerpts follow.
As a result of &#8220;an emergent, market-driven global financial system that was all about a faith-based market fundamentalism,&#8221; he says, 
we&#8217;ve ended up with our current &#8220;It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life&#8221; Pottersville, where Rupert Murdoch plays our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World in 2010: Climate Change and Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/09/world-in-2010-climate-change-and-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/09/world-in-2010-climate-change-and-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The environment was prominent on the program of The Economist&#8217;s World in 2010 conference this week.  Some particularly interesting points:
Joe Lockhart, Founding Partner and Managing Director, The Glover Park Group:

The rest of world is going ahead on climate change. If the United States steps away from leading on climate change again, it will continue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World in 2010: Economic Forecasts</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/09/world-in-2010-economic-forecasts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/09/world-in-2010-economic-forecasts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended the Economist&#8217;s World in 2010 conference this week.  The economic outlook was cautiously positive.
Carmen Reinhart, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for International Economics, University of Maryland:

A rapid V-shaped recovery is unlikely, as the conditions are not in place.
The revenue hit inflicted by the recession will accelerate the arrival of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Had US; Who Does US Hand Off To?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/16/uk-us-%e2%89%a0-us-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/16/uk-us-%e2%89%a0-us-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural power]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an attack on the Obama administration&#8217;s policy of &#8220;strategic reassurance,&#8221; Robert Kagan and Dan Blumenthal make an interesting point
&#8220;Strategic reassurance&#8221; seems to chart a different course. Senior officials liken the policy to the British accommodation of a rising United States at the end of the 19th century, which entailed ceding the Western Hemisphere to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing America&#8217;s Brand</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/13/fixing-americas-brand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/13/fixing-americas-brand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marian Salzman asked me and others to talk about re-branding the United States.  These are extracts from two of her blog posts, about challenges and solutions.
My remarks:
Brand America is suffering from the hangover of the Bush years, which intensified perceptions of the U.S. as arrogant, violent, greedy, ignorant and self-interested. One of the tragedies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexicans: Life Is Better in the US</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/24/mexicans-life-is-better-in-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/24/mexicans-life-is-better-in-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pew reports that most Mexicans see life in the US as better than that in Mexico, and 33% of Mexicans would like to come to the US.  Some 18% would do so even if it were illegal.
They identify these issues as &#8220;very big&#8221; problems in Mexico:

crime &#8212; 81%
the economy &#8212; 75%
illegal drugs &#8212; 73%
corruption [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for China&#8217;s Rise</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/17/waiting-for-chinas-rise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/17/waiting-for-chinas-rise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pew released data today about global expectations of China&#8217;s rise and the US role in the world.
People are not that certain of China&#8217;s rise.  Majorities or pluralities in only half of the countries surveyed &#8220;believe that China will &#8212; or already has &#8212; replaced the U.S. as the world&#8217;s leading superpower.&#8221;  Sensibly, only [...]]]></description>
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