Scientists are forced to face the fact that weather is more complicated than just heating up because of increased CO2 in the atmosphere. Things like wind and ocean patterns and solar conditions. Man's influence is minuscule by comparison.
Islamic finance in the Mideast is emerging as a global leader in financing for Green Economy, or Sustainable Development (aka Technocracy), and its entry into blockchain cryptocurrency is not surprising. Islam and Sustainable Development are compatible on many levels.
The UN fears that its new Habitat III/New Urban Agenda will quickly fall behind, prompting an even higher level of urgency and oversight. The New Urban Agenda will be the most direct driver of implementing Technocracy (aka Sustainable Development) on over 50% of the world's population.
The U.S. is quietly clamping down on crypto-currencies, which goes hand-in-hand with the global war on cash. As terrorism is always the target, whatever gets classified as terrorism is an immediate target.
Regardless of benevolent-sounding platitudes about helping medical patients, DARPA's singular military mission is to create technology-enhanced super-soldiers.
This GMO operation (using CRISPR technology) is permanently changing the germline of these ants and with the specific purpose of changing their social behavior. Technocrats do not consider ethics or unfavorable outcomes that will surely occur.
Armed with a new cybersecurity law, China's Technocratic government is going after social networks to purge data and people that "endanger national security, public security and the social order". Among other things, they are looking for 'fake rumours'.
A day of reckoning is approaching for rogue forms of money like digital blockchain currencies, when they run head into the global banking cartel. While the Bitcoins of the world are proving a point, global Technocrats have no intention of releasing their current hold on economic and monetary transformation.
The Technocrat and Transhuman dreams are merging on this fantasy, that humans can be fundamentally transformed without any undesirable side-effects. Such human enhancement was originally put into play by DARPA in 2001.
Launched over a year ago, China's satellite has now demonstrated quantum key distribution to the ground, potentially giving it control over the global communication network. This technology will undoubtedly dovetail with its ambitions to create a dominating global blockchain currency, because it will be "un-hackable".