Chapter Sixty-Eight: Whimsical, Strong, and Vulnerable

3. Strong and vulnerable

After that, the European economy is like the weather of early winter, and the shadow of the Greek debt crisis hangs over Europe, when the Greek crisis has not yet dissipated, the Volkswagen emission gate incident broke out in Germany, and the Volkswagen emission gate scandal is more serious than the impact of the Greek debt crisis on the world economy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 At the same time, Europe is suffering from the impact of millions of refugees.

The whole of Europe is really in trouble, and one newspaper said: "Greece's debt crisis is a one-way problem." But looking at the successive economic problems in Europe, he believes that these problems may become problems of the world economy that affect the whole world. He felt compelled to write a blog post to draw attention to Europe's economic woes.

He sat down in front of his computer and began to write a blog post, he wrote: The world has entered the era of the global village, the world economy has never been so interconnected, and human beings have never been so interdependent as they are today. Modern communication technology, represented by the Internet, has enabled information to spread all over the world in an instant and at zero cost for the first time, and the flow of capital and capital in various countries in the world will also be transferred from one place, one country, and one continent to other places in an instant through the Internet, resulting in large fluctuations in the capital market, and financial speculators will profit from such fluctuations. The international financial predators are staring at the economic problems in some countries, which can set off a big financial storm in a short period of time, as was the case with the Asian financial crisis on July 2, 1997.

We find that the global economy will be characterized by high levels of debt, weak investment, low real and nominal interest rates, credit bubbles, and unsustainable debt in the long run.

He stopped writing at this point, and his mind was full of thoughts, and he thought a lot, a lot. He fears that the economic crisis could lead to a political crisis in the countries of the world, bringing with it the risk of war that would endanger the lives of all things in the world.

He goes on to write: Humanity has never been stronger. Nuclear weapons, especially the powerful thermonuclear weapons represented by the United Nations, have given mankind for the first time a "surplus of energy" -- any one of the permanent members of the UN Security Council has the ability to inflict catastrophic damage on the entire international community. In the past human history, the capacity for reproduction was roughly equal to the capacity for destruction, and now the capacity for destruction is far greater than the capacity for reproduction. In this sense, the competition for material power has lost its meaning in the ultimate sense.

Humanity has never been more vulnerable. Urbanization is one of the characteristics of modern civilization, and it is this characteristic that reflects the fragility of human beings today. As technology evolves to new heights, so does the vulnerability of cities. One person jumping off the subway can cause congestion in the whole city. Once sophisticated public facilities such as the Internet, water pipes, and smart grids are paralyzed, a modern city will immediately transform from an advanced complex into a jungle of steel and concrete, where even the most basic means of survival cannot be provided. More importantly, such a close connection on the material level not only creates the vulnerability of everyone on the material level, but also creates the vulnerability on the psychological level.

Humanity has never been more in danger. With the development of new technologies such as the mobile Internet and 3D printing, dangerous technologies, including nuclear weapons, have proliferated, and with them, the destructive power of individuals and NGOs has increased, even to the point that a single individual can have catastrophic consequences for the whole world. The horror moguls of those sci-fi movies may actually appear in reality.

Humanity has never been so dependent on each other. In primitive societies, people were self-sufficient, and although the standard of living was low, the degree of interdependence was also low. The specialization of the modern division of labor in production has increased the interdependence between people. Over the past decade or so, we have experienced the global surge in computer memory prices caused by the earthquake in Taiwan, and we have experienced the impact of China's stock market volatility on the world's financial markets. Countless facts are constantly reminding us that humanity is on the same Noah's Ark.

Judging from the current state of the world, future world wars and nuclear wars are likely to be caused by the world economic crisis and the Great Depression---------。