Other comments on this high-level PESTEL are welcome. /end

Legal: Legal environments, not just in the U.S., that are devoid of any meaningful #accountability or enforcement. The collapse of democratic institutions, again not just in the U.S., under the pressure of far-right populism and its regressive demands for tribalistic policy.

Environmental: Continued re: AI data server farms. Runaway #climate change well beyond the 1.5C worst-case projections from the failed Paris Accords. Climate #refugees, failing ecosystems and biospheres, the dominance and finality of the Anthropocene.

Technological: Privacy breaches, #ransomware, intellectual property theft, etc. Global software and telecomms outages are becoming the norm: #CrowdStrike, #AWS, Rogers x2. #AI data server farm requirements are extraordinary and likely unsustainable. The utter failure of the internet experiment.

Social: Razor-sharp social and cultural divides including domestic politics. Erosion of support for #EDIB programming and policies in the corporate world. Toxic #socialmedia. Stratification of social classes.

Economic: Decline of American hard and soft power, including dollar hegemony. #Tariffs. Trade wars. The rise of Indian technology. Increasingly vulnerable, complex, and tightly coupled global #supplychains. Increasingly vulnerable #cyber domain, which costs money.

There’s a great deal of evidence that suggests that in large-scale disasters, community members are the first responders.

I trust your services for that reason.