Future gazing: The world in 2021 with global affairs analyst Michael Bociurkiw

To describe 2020 as unexpected would be an understatement. But to be best prepared for the year ahead, we invited global affairs analyst Michael Bociurkiw on our podcast for a 360-degree view on the state of the world in 2021.

Bociurkiw's commentary has been featured in BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, and more. He has a truly global perspective having reported from Canada, US, and Asia. Most recently, he covered the defining US elections.

He is the best person to talk about what lies ahead because he has worked as a communications expert with numerous relief organisations including the WHO and UNICEF and has worked on promoting immunisation for polio.

Listen to the conversation for a balanced perspective – the good and the ugly. He sounds an alarm on important social issues such as autocratic governments exploiting the pandemic to become even stronger and China's worrisome over-expanding influence across the world. He is concerned about the future of journalism and about travel becoming a privileged activity limited to those who can afford private jets.

But he is hopeful. From people getting the downtime to reflect, corporates starting to care about their carbon footprint to boost in local travel and growth of local media – he sees the silver lining. Listen to the conversation that covered a lot of ground.

Episode highlights:
0:50 - How Biden will approach China
8:30 - How 2021 will be a crucial year for climate change
14:14 - How shifts in travel will be permanent
21:03 - The impact of people's exodus from the cities to the suburbs
25:02 - The future of journalism
31:02 - The challenges with the COVID vaccine from socio-economic inequality to the disinformation around it
37:15 - Examples of good and bad leadership during the pandemic

For more from our guest, listen to Bociurkiw's podcast Global Impact and follow his work here. He is currently working on a book called 'The Digital Pandemic: How Tech Went from a Bad to Good Boy'.

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