2017: Change Can Be A Bitch

Alexandria, Egypt 1962.

Automatic Earth is primarily about the economy which, stripped of all its finery, therein is the root of climate change.

Writing on yesterday’s edition of Automatic Earth, Raúl Ilargi Meijer said: “What we can say at this point in time is that the changes 2016 delivered were urgently needed. There are many people out there who just want to turn back the clock, and change everything back to how it was, but they can’t, and that’s a good thing, because the way things were was hurting too many people.

“2016 will go down in history as the year when a big divide between groups of people in the western world became visible, a divide that had until then been papered over by real or imaginary wealth, as well as by ignorance and denial,” he writes.

Read the Automatic Earth story - “2017: Change Can Be A Bitch.”