# 2030 ## Metadata * Author: [Mauro F. Guillén](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B084F986RN * ISBN: 1250268176 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084F986RN * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084F986RN) ## Highlights The basic point is this: every finale signifies the dawn of a new reality replete with opportunity—if you dare to dig beneath the surface, anticipate the trends, engage rather than disconnect, and learn how to make effective decisions for yourself, your children, your partner or spouse, your future family, your company, and so forth. Everyone will be impacted. — location: [109](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084F986RN&location=109) ^ref-8761 --- While cities occupy just 1 percent of the world’s land area, they are home to 55 percent of the population and account for 80 percent of energy consumption (and carbon emissions). That’s why cities are on the front lines of efforts to combat climate change. — location: [128](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084F986RN&location=128) ^ref-44106 --- “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for”—they’re blind to the unexpected, the unusual, the periphery. — location: [184](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084F986RN&location=184) ^ref-7095 --- locals with a source of income. Throughout the developing — location: [470](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084F986RN&location=470) ^ref-59014 --- might be used. We have little systematic data about the values and attitudes of Chinese urban millennials, but one can fairly say that they indulge in self-expression values (social toleration, life satisfaction, public expression, and an aspiration to liberty) and do not tend to see modernization, wealth, and progress as “Western.” They save three times as much as their American peers, although that’s true for other age groups in China as well—not a bad idea given how skewed the age pyramid will become, with 25 percent of the population over the age of sixty by 2030. THE FUTURE OF “OLD” AND “YOUNG” One — location: [1205](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B084F986RN&location=1205) ^ref-63274 ---