What is highly likely to happen in the next ten years that everyone is completely ignoring?

Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.

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• Cloves grew on only a few small islands in the world, and planting a tree was how you celebrated the birth of a child; when colonizers seized the islands, they burned all the trees to enforce a monopoly. An entire forest destroyed for the sake of a spice. Why are humans so ready to destroy the very thing they cannot get enough of?
• Salt was so valuable that Roman soldiers were paid with it; the word 'salary' comes from there. So when we say someone is 'worth their salt,' we mean it almost literally. What does it say that a rock once held a nation together?
• Why was Copernicus's sun-centered model of the universe a revolution not just in astronomy but in humanity's sense of its place in the cosmos? Let's talk about Earth losing its spot at the center.
• Ice was once shipped to tropical countries and made men fortunes; ice cut from New England lakes traveled as far as India, and even though half of it melted on the way, the trade still turned a profit. The cold that flows from the tap today was a luxury yesterday. How does abundance zero out a thing's value so fast?
• Some cultures count the 'day' from dawn, others from sunset; in Jewish and Islamic tradition the day begins in the evening. So the question 'when does today start' has no universal answer. Is the new day opened by the moment we wake, or by the moment the sun goes down?