Crash and Burn or Glide to Safety

Which way for our future.

Photo by Richard R. Schünemann on Unsplash

I am going to use an analogy of an aircraft here to illustrate how things could go for humanity.

Imagine the whole of the human race is flying along in one vast jumbo jet. The rich are sitting up in first class with champagne and caviar, the middle classes are sitting in the comfort of ‘business class’ and the rest of us are at the back in economy. Note…