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# Video: "EU Vaccine Wars, the Suez Canal, and Coffee Problems - What Today's Headlines Mean for Your World in 2025!"
**URL:** https://jimcarroll.com/2021/03/video-eu-vaccine-wars-the-suez-canal-and-coffee-problems-what-todays-headlines-mean-for-your-world-in-2025/
Date: 2021-03-24
Author: JimCarroll
Post Type: post
Summary: So today, I decided to take apart a few of today’s news headlines to put into perspective a key reality: You often don’t appreciate the seismic scope of the shifts while you immersed in them. I reference a few other videos in the clip. Here’s one I did a few weeks ago: “what’s the future of […]
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So today, I decided to take apart a few of today's news headlines to put into perspective a key reality: ***You often don’t appreciate the seismic scope of the shifts while you immersed in them.***
I reference a few other videos in the clip. Here's one I did a few weeks ago: "*what's the future of globalization? How will trade patterns and supply chains change as a result of what's happened in the last year?" *
You are immersed in a pretty big trend right now.
The Chief Resilience Officer? It's in this show:
Globalization? Here's what we know:
- it's pretty clear that supply chains are broken: any discussion today is all about resilience, backup, multiple sourcing. Some companies have strategies in place that provide for triple or quadruple sourcing for product
- Covid-19 didn't just break them - it highlighted what was wrong with them - in that companies and nations did not build any sort of resilience into their global supply chains
- fast trends highlighted this weakness: as the world rushed to online shopping, companies that were exposed were quickly exposed!
- it has weaponized global trade: we saw this early on as nations locked down supplies with PPE, and we are seeing it now in real-time as countries block vaccine exports. This is a new fast trend with major implications
- governments are finding new barriers: the pandemic provided a convenient opportunity to revive talk and action around protectionism
- trust has been eroded: the impact of all of this is that global trust has broken down on a massive scale
- damage must be fixed: expect this issue to be the focus of much corporate and global organizational discussion over years to come. G7 meetings will spend a lot of time on this issue, and companies will revise global trade contracts to better protect themselves
- localization accelerates: countries and companies are obviously moving to produce locally when and where they can, but as I identify in the video, many have not addressed the skills and other issues that come with this
- and so global trade patterns are forever transformed: we aren't going back to where we were - we are only going to where we will be!
It's not as though supply chains and global trade were already being transformed. Protectionist moves and the impact of the 2008-09 downturn were already dominating the trend:
- global trade was already falling in 2019 due to global politics
- and it was already falling as a result of the economic downturn of 2009
- global supply chains ceased expanding after 2008!
- it then shrunk by 9.2% through 2020
This is all pretty obvious - so what does it mean?
Upheaval, resilience, skills issues, and more!
Take this quote and pin it to your wall!
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