Do we live in an age of Uncertainty?

Prof. John Keane discusses the term “certainty” in times of growing uncertainties such as oods and res, global pestilence, species destruction, unending wars, shrinking US power, talk of the spiritual decadence of the West, disa ection with democracy, and the birth of a new Chinese global empire. While discussing the reasons for the growing popularity of pessimism among population, he interrogates this mood and this mentality of catastrophes by examining eight points analytically.