What happens if several times end at once?
"What happens if they end several times at once?" Ask Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. What if the decades of high growth in China are over, so that their ability to foster global growth is much less reliable in the future?
What happens if the era of the price of oil of 100 dollars per barrel has ended?
"What would happen if the era of the price of oil of 100 dollars per barrel had ended and all those countries whose economies depended directly or indirectly on those prices had to learn to grow as they did before: produce goods and services that others want to buy? "
What happens if the EU era is over? "
What happens if the era of the "middle countries" ends? "During the Cold War there could be a new independent, middle state, with artificial borders drawn by colonial powers," says Friedman. "Many of these states do not correspond to any ethnic, cultural, linguistic or demographic reality, they are caravan houses in a mobile home camp [...], and what is seen now with the acceleration of technology, Tensions of climate change and globalization is the equivalent of a tornado that runs through a mobile home camp. "
"Some of these states are crumbling and many of its inhabitants are trying to cross the Mediterranean to escape a world of disorder towards the world of order, in particular, the European Union," the journalist complains. "But, what happens if the era of the European Union is over?"