Back to the Future II
The article discusses the author's scorecard on their 2020 Supertanker Trends, which included climate change, ageing population, and global leadership war. The author reflects on how their predictions played out in 2025 and what this means for the future. The trends have accelerated, with significant implications for investment opportunities and global policies.
- ▪The 2025 global surface temperatures were 1.47°C above pre-industrial levels, making it the third-warmest year on record.
- ▪The global fertility rate now stands at approximately 2.1, with two-thirds of all countries already below the replacement level.
- ▪The UN projects that 38 nations will experience population decline over the next 25 years, up from 21 in the last 25 years.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (Newest) |
| Canonical URL | https://blog.entropy.capital/p/back-to-the-future-ii |
| Publication time | Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:10:22 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-30T07:24:23.532Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-30T07:24:23.532Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Back to the Future IIThe Scorecard, The War Nobody Priced, and Six Things You Can't Afford to IgnoreGeorge CotsikisJun 28, 202621ShareText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedLife happensText within this block will maintain its original spacing when published AlsoText within this block will maintain its original spacing when published Better late than neverText within this block will maintain its original spacing when published— a haiku from yours trulyWishing everyone a very belated healthy and meaningful 2026!Welcome back to the most irregularly published blog on the interwebs. Still no paid subscription. Still no passive income courses. Still no fin-fluencer status.
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