Not because – as you often hear – we are returning to a world of small nations, proud and sovereign, but because Europe is being replaced by a much vaster and more interesting geographic unit: Eurasia, the combination of the two continents of Europe and Asia, stretching from Lisbon to Shanghai or Jakarta.
A combination of Starwood and Six Continents would create the world's largest hotel company, with more than 3,900 properties.
One byproduct of this process is that the candy bar you eat today may include a combination of cocoas from three different continents.
"MEST is absolutely uniquely positioned to address this by providing the right, commercially driven training and environment for pre-idea, pre-team founders, continuing to support them and their teams in any one of or a combination of our incubators across the continent and as well with the right funding to fully form their ideas to a stages which are feasibly funded by later stage investors.
"No other continent has this combination of atmospheric set-up and topography", says Fasullo. "Only in Australia could the atmosphere carry such heavy tropical rains to such a large area, only to have those rains fail to make their way to the ocean".
However, whether it was direct hunting by people, competition with dingoes, changes brought about by the increasing human population, who by 3000 years ago were using all habitat types across the continent, or a combination of all three, is unknown; devils had coexisted with dingoes on the mainland for around 3000 years.
After a confrontation with Iran was defused, The Guardian, the British newspaper, exulted, "America wields only a big stick these days, but the old continent believes in a combination of little sticks and juicy carrots".
But it also may be a model for the international response, as Mogae's government prepares to launch the most ambitious combination of prevention and treatment programs on the continent.
To validate that soils are endemic, soil bodies occurring on different continents but having a similar combination of soil-forming factors were compared using National Soil Survey Characterization Data.
But above all, it's a place for people who will travel across continents to see a breathtaking combination of hundreds of disparate species, all converging on a single point on the map.
