hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
G8 'leadership'
"IT'S been 13 long months since the leaders of the G8 gathered for their annual talkfest. Just in case you've forgotten what was agreed in Heiligendamm, here's a reminder: "We noted," the G8 said, "that the world economy is in good condition and growth is more evenly distributed across regions." This was June 8, 2007, two months to the day before the entire global financial system came to a shuddering halt. If you like your humour black, it's rather funny isn't it?But wait, it gets better. The communique expressed confidence that there would be "a smooth adjustment of global imbalances which should take place in the context of sustained and robust economic growth".
If the G8 was doing its job properly, this week's communique would be rather shorter than usual. It would say the world is about to be battered by a triple crunch of a credit-fuelled financial crisis, galloping climate change and - even in the absence of speculation - a long-term increase in energy prices caused by the imminence of peak oil."
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You guessed it. The Global economic elite has no interest in any greater good than their own aspirations, and no long term vision.
This increasingly global economy and society is being driven for short term factional gain. With the number of humans expected to surpass a number somewhere in the range of 9.5 billion this century, and with China and India chasing first world consumption levels with unprecedented consumer populations, we will all be demanding so much more of the old and cheap energies like coal and oil, and also more water, food, and land.
Now, the more land we require for people to settle, the less we have for growing food. The more coal we demand, the more we will pollute the atmosphere and heat the climate reducing fresh water supply. The more oil that is demanded globally, the less able supply will be to meet this extra demand, driving prices up further and halting economies.
Our planet and its societies are going to go through unprecedented challenges in the coming century related to overpopulation and its heavy demands on the environment and its resources. We will require intelligent, informed and holistic minded leaders if we are to survive and prosper, not 'leaders' who make a career out of telling the masses what they want to hear: that everything is 'ok', that it's simply 'business as usual', and who defend a system which discourages people from coming together to plan for the future to soften the immanent blow which in this case will be a hard one if we don't act to reduce the world's population and our spiralling demand for earth's resources.