What Lies Ahead?
There are projections that our global population is due to increase by up to 50% over the next fifty years. We know too that the climate pattern is changing at an alarming and possibly unprecedented speed and that the majority of the human habitat is being unsustainably mined rather than sustainably farmed. The natural resources that we have inherited, be they oil and mineral reserves, or the wealth of flora and fauna with which our world was once endowed, are not going to be passed on intact from our generation to our children and their children. If nothing else, these trends, if allowed to continue unchecked, are going to have adverse effects on humanity's ability to feed itself. Famine and pandemics lie ahead.
In parallel with these negative trends, an ever-increasing proportion of the world's population is dependant for its survival on the smooth functioning of a global economy. Increasing numbers of us live in cities unable to fend for ourselves without the support of the most intricate economic structures.
Though we depend for our existence on an increasingly interdependent globalised economy, there is no equivalent to that globalisation in the realm of politics. Without political globalisation there is no assurance that the globalised economy will be able to continue to function without violent and possibly terminal interruption.
We live in a world that has no government except the weapons, both military and economic, of the powerful. The rule of international law functions under the umbrella of a United Nations Organization that, since its inception, has provided only a hollow facade of international government. In reality the executive decisions of the United Nations are subject to the veto and manipulation of powerful nations intent on nothing but the gain of their own selfish ends at the expense of the remainder. Superpowers, and would-be superpowers, their leaders pumping the testosterone of power, square off against each other like Stone Age tribes brandishing potentially world-destroying nuclear arms. Terrorism and other dysfunctional forms of conflict are a seemingly inevitable consequence of the injustices inherent in the current international system. War and possibly the total destruction of the human species lie ahead.
Sapiens offers a practical solution to the problems faced by humanity at this stage of its evolution. As things are, it is the human race against time. If you care; join the race.
Welcome to the Sapiens movement: your opportunity to do something about the current mess we are making of our childrens' world.
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