Earth Better Than It’s Ever Been: Consultant

Brexit, Aleppo, North Korea, Washington, D.C. -- all are making the kind of headlines nobody wants to see.

Yet Kevin Kajiwara says Earth has never been better. On the whole, far fewer people are dying from violence, while more people die from eating too much than do from eating too little, said Kajiwara during a Monday talk at the Insured Retirement Institute's annual marketing conference.

Kajiwara is co-president of Teneo Intelligence. A few random tweets from his talk on "geopolitical risks":

China has a big number of advantages in any trade war with the U.S., says Kevin Kajiwara of Teneo Intelligence.. #IRISummit

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China has a big number of advantages in any trade war with the U.S., says Kevin Kajiwara of Teneo Intelligence.. #IRISummit

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Will Germany/France take Russian hack threat serious, or ignore it like U.S.? Kevin Kajiwara says election results threatened. #IRISummit

— InsuranceNewsNet (@InsNewsNet) March 20, 2017

Washington, D.C. "too small to be a state, but too big to be an insane asylum," quips Kevin Kajiwara of Teneo Intelligence. #IRISummit

— InsuranceNewsNet (@InsNewsNet) March 20, 2017