From Worldometer (new COVID-19 deaths yesterday):
DAY USA WORLD Brazil India South Africa
- The USA had by far the most COVID new deaths yesterday, 314. With 4% the world population we had more than 20% of the world deaths.
- Japan and South Korea are finally recovering, but still had the most new cases.
- #1 S. Korea 93,904
- #2 Japan 78,701
- #3 USA 55,398
- #4 Russia 51,735
- #5 Taiwan 49,643
- Interesting that Hong Kong had around 1000 new cases/million yesterday, while China had 0.2 new cases/million.
- Taiwan 2076
- USA 165
From the New York Times:
When President Bill Clinton signed a bipartisan bill tightening the rules around welfare eligibility in 1996 — and making many benefits conditional on work — critics on the political left (Democrats) predicted terrible effects. |
So what happened?
A comprehensive new analysis shows that child poverty has fallen 59 percent since 1993, with need receding on nearly every front. Child poverty has fallen in every state, and it has fallen by about the same degree among children who are white, Black, Hispanic and Asian, living with one parent or two, and in native or immigrant households.
But how did this happen?
- Poor single mothers somehow found and held better paying jobs.
- There was an expansion of government aid for low-income workers, food stamps, higher minimum wages, etc.
“We’re in a worse place than I expected”: David Wallace-Wells interviewed Bill Gates about the progress on poverty, hunger and climate. |
World poverty ranking, by the CIA.
- #1 Syria 82.5%
- #2 South Sudan 76.4%
- #3 Madagascar 70.7%
- #23 Honduras 48.3%
- #32 Mexico 41/9%
- #35 Micronesia 41.2%
- #46 Bolivia 37.2%
- #50 Argentina 35.5%
- #60 U.S. Virgin Islands 28.9%
- #73 Bangladesh 24.3%
- #74 Pakistan 24.3%
- #75 Bulgari 23.8%
- #83 Guam 23.0%
- #88 Israel 22.0%
- #89 India 21.9%
- #96 Spain 20.7%
- #100 Italy 20.1%
- #102 Hong Kong 19.9%
- #106 Botswana 19.3%
- #107 Iran 18.7%
- #108 UK 18.6%
- #117 Sweden 17.1%
- #110 Philippines 16.7%
- #111 Cambodia 16.5%
- #112 Greenland 16.2%
- #113 Japan 16.1%
- #114 Switzerland 16.0%
- #115 Jordan 15.7%
- #116 Poland 15.4%
- #117 Tunisia 15.2%
- #118 USA 15.1%
- #119 Germany 14.8%
- #120 Belgium 14.8%
- #121 Turkey 14.4%
- #122 South Korea 14.4%
- #129 Russia 12.6%
- #138 Thailand 9.9%
- #139 European Union 9.8%
- #140 Indonesia 9.4%
- #141 Canada 9.4%
- #144 Chile 8.6%
- #145 Bhutan 8.2%
- #148 Vietnam 6.7%
- #149 Malaysia 5.6%
- #154 Kazakhstan 4.3%
- #155 Brazil 4.2%
- #156 Taiwan 1.5%
- #157 Ukraine 1.1%
- #158 China 0.6%
- #159 Turkmenistan 0.2%
- Israel and India have around the same level of poverty, 22% and 21.9%.
- Hong Kong is #102 with 19.9%, while China is #158 at 0.6% (note the difference above also in COVID cases and deaths)
- Japan and Switzerland at #113 and #114 have around the same poverty rate, but Jordan has a lower rate at #115.
- Tunisia is about tied with the USA at numbers #117 and #118, 15.2% and 15.1%, while Germany is #119 with 14.8%
- Russia is #129 at 12.6%, heck of a lot lower than the USA, but not as good as Thailand at 9.9%. I've been to Thailand many times, and I would swear their poverty rate had to be at least twice that of the USA.
- The war has of course made a difference, but in 2019 Ukraine was #157 at 1.1%, a poverty rate 15 times lower than the USA.
- Kazakhstan is #154 at 4.3% and #159 is Turkmenistan at 0.2%. I thought those former Soviet countries were poor.
Beluga and football:
Typhoon Muifa did make landfall over Shanghai yesterday as a Category 2. Some flooding, but nothing particularly serious. Is now a tropical storm.
After meandering around for a while, Nanmadol suddenly became a hurricane yesterday, is now up to 100 MPH and predicted to reach Category 4 strength of 140 MPH as early as tomorrow. All signs point to a track that will make landfall over southern Kyushu on late Sunday or Monday, and move right across Japan as a hurricane. This one could become a real problem.
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1 comment:
Finished CH3(Silver Bullet H2) and CH4 (Blue Revolution). I wasn't disappointed.
Ch3 Takeaways:
War = Resource Control
Unlimited resources = ?
Unlimited resources owned by the world = ?
Free Hydrogen Age was a new concept to me, and a fascinating one. I have been giving much thought on the "Oil" economy, and how nearly everything around us can be equated to a "oil" or "carbon" value (i.e. the shirt you are wearing is likely 10-40 KG of carbon dioxide through manufacturing, transport). That is traveled rabbit hole, but one of the outcomes is a world where oil (energy) is so cheap it is essentially free (enter the middle east). Economic output based on free energy (I say cautiously optimistically and aware of the vast oversimplification) is greater.
It also rhymes in tune with Andrew Yang's universal income argument (I'd recommend listening to JRE interview of him). Either way I think more and more U.S citizens are waking up to hand-waving of federal funding and lack of tangible impact.
My question from the chapter:
What are your thoughts on Tesla and the battery advancements? I suspect this is covered in your blog but have yet to come across.
CH4 Takeways:
A hard chapter to have written, I imagine. There is so much opportunity and asymmetry to capture, and you have discussed the problems at the highest levels. The web of politics, funding and academia is, again, dizzying. It is inspiring to see how much groundwork and thought has been given to the Blue Revolution. It is also gut wrenching to learn how many years have passed.
I'm sure you've seen the growing capital pivoting towards "ocean-tech" and "blue-tech" as well as those combining climate-tech and ocean-tech.
My questions for this chapter, and the Blue Revolution abound. If I had to choose one for now, for maybe you to at least ponder as you travel the seas, it would be: what is the current state of the (blue) union?
I hope to learn more getting through blog posts, and researching some of the thinkers/players you've mentioned so far, as well as SSFH(BK2).
Fair winds and following seas.
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