A interesting piece in Foreign Policy by David Rothkopf on the 10 events since September 11th that have been, in his estimation, more important, or had a greater impact on the world than the attacks on America.
Rothkopf doesn’t discount the importance of the day or the lives that were lost, but list the things that rose up while the US was hunting for Bin Laden and spending billions on wars.
In reverse order, 10) The American response to 9-11, 9) the Arab Spring 8) Rebalancing of Asia 7) Stagnation of US and other Developed-World economies 6) Invention of Social Media, 5) Proliferation of cell phones and handheld devices 4) The Crash of 2008 3) The Eurozone crisis of 2011-2012, 2) Failure to address Global warming and 1) The rise of China and other BRICs.
Rothkopf said global warming would have been number one except that we haven’t felt its full effects yet. He notes that the next 100 years will be heavily influenced by “new” powers led by China, India and Brazil.
His point about global warming is that if the temperature rise continues the resulting events will make 9-11 look like “a comparative footnote to an event that could remake the nature of life on Earth and lead to a toll many, many times greater than either 9/11 or the wars it triggered.”
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