Sublime

The monsoon rains are the lifeblood of Asia’s highly productive rice-growing agriculture, which in turn feeds much of humanity. It is because of the temperate-zone monsoons of Asia that Southern, Southeastern, and Eastern Asia are home to 55 percent of the world’s population in 2020.

the brain drain. Coined in 1962 to describe the large-scale migration of skilled technocrats from Britain to the United States, the term was quickly co-opted to describe a related, even more dramatic phenomenon: the movement of educated professionals from developing countries, particularly India and China, to developed nations, particularly the Uni

in the early 1980s New Zealand was suffering a population decline so drastic that newspaper cartoons joked, "Last one out, turn the lights off." Self-deprecating humor masked a national anxiety and an economic crisis in the making. The country was experiencing its own miniature "brain drain" as educated and skilled young New Zea