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Africa's demographic dividend, and Jeff Bezos on the Lex Fridman Podcast
The world economy’s biggest problem is Africa. One in three people entering the workforce will live Africa by the 2030s. For the world economy to grow faster as a whole, Africa would need to find a way to employ these workers productively and capitalise on its demographic dividend. But for most African countries, that’s not happening
COP28 ended with a historic deal on fossil fuels. The U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai, explicitly recommends “transitioning away from fossil fuels” that are dangerously heating the Earth. It comes after nearly two weeks of furious debate at the summit, where diplomats from Saudi Arabia and other major oil exporters had pushed to prolong the era of oil, gas and coal.
