Rio+20 will fail the world's people in a catastrophic the long-term
Over the last 300 years we have built a false and unsustainable world for humanity. Indeed we now live in an artificial world order that can never survive and eventually humankind will cease to live as an intelligent species. Since the term MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) was expressed, our world has been living on borrowed time. Indeed the world is now more than ever dividing itself on the altar of nationalism and self-interest. I give no more than five years for the EC to break up and nations in the West to go their own way. But I also see on the other side of the coin, as Europe and the West disintegrate, that the East and nations like Russia will come ever closer together. This will create a formidable economic block and where a weakened western civilization will be more prone in the future to lead to conflict. This is not based upon unsound expectations, but the sheer fact that the world’s economic power is transferring eastward and that we shall have around 10 billion humans by 2050, all struggling for natural resources to preserve their way of life. History shows that global wars are economic and this will not change in the future. Increasingly what is deteriorating const...
Written against the backdrop of continuing suicides among Indian farmers, a new book describes the impact of the country’s agricultural crisis on women
The Fate of the Species by Fred Guterl is a bracing overview of the worst that can happen if humans do not overcome their ecological and Earth-systems illiteracy, writes Caspar Henderson.
里约会议将让世界失望
在过去的300年,人类建造了一个虚假的不可持续的世界。事实上,我们活在一个人造的规律中,而人类最后还是会走向灭亡。MAD(共同毁灭原则)说明了人类活在一个预支的时间概念中。现在的世界被国家主义和个人主义划分开来,我认为,欧洲共同体会在不五年内解体,而西方国家亦会弃之于不顾。另一方面,东方国家和像俄罗斯那样的国家间的关系会更近,形成强大的经济区块,这一来则会削弱西方文明地位,从产生国家间的分歧。这并不是没有来由的,事实证明世界的经济重心正向东移,2050年将有100亿人口争夺自然资源。历史告诉我们,经济利益一直都是战争爆发的缘由,世界正处于崩溃的边缘...
Rio+20 will fail the world's people in a catastrophic the long-term
Over the last 300 years we have built a false and unsustainable world for humanity. Indeed we now live in an artificial world order that can never survive and eventually humankind will cease to live as an intelligent species. Since the term MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) was expressed, our world has been living on borrowed time. Indeed the world is now more than ever dividing itself on the altar of nationalism and self-interest. I give no more than five years for the EC to break up and nations in the West to go their own way. But I also see on the other side of the coin, as Europe and the West disintegrate, that the East and nations like Russia will come ever closer together. This will create a formidable economic block and where a weakened western civilization will be more prone in the future to lead to conflict. This is not based upon unsound expectations, but the sheer fact that the world’s economic power is transferring eastward and that we shall have around 10 billion humans by 2050, all struggling for natural resources to preserve their way of life. History shows that global wars are economic and this will not change in the future. Increasingly what is deteriorating const...