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Global civilisation in the the next three decades : Comments
By Peter McMahon, published 16/9/2014Over the last five centuries we have seen the rise of a global civilisation on Earth, but now our global civilisation is in crisis and the next three decades will be critical ones.
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Posted by Jon J, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 10:44:14 AM
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You left one minor point out JJ.
Populations keep growing rapidly eating us out of house and home (and planet). Posted by ateday, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 10:58:09 AM
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This is 2014 JJ.
Nuclear fission has been viable for a few years now. Remember? Posted by ateday, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 10:59:50 AM
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Oops -- fusion, then. But as for global population, I believe that we're still on track to hit a peak around 2080 and then decline.
Posted by Jon J, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 11:11:16 AM
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"debate about how to best run a global civilisation and how to generate the institutions and other processes necessary to do this"
Fail. This assumes that civilisations are "run" [by the clever ruling class ordering everyone around of course] and the only question is what particular configuration of coercion is "necessary" to do it. Peter, that believe system has already been destruct-tested over the last 100 years, and proven wrong both in theory and practice, at enormous cost in human suffering. Try something new? Try re-thinking what doesn't work? Try finding out why it didn't? Try falsifying your own beliefs? Try learning what theories correctly predicted why yours didn't work, and trying to falsify them? Posted by Jardine K. Jardine, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 1:04:52 PM
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Assuming that humankind is still here or hasnt destroyed itself by then, it is really impossible to predict what the humanly created world will be like in 30 years time.
Due to the ongoing revolutionary development of micro-electronic technologies (and macro ones too) the humanly created world of 2015 is completely different to what it was 30 years ago in 1980. Yes in the now-time quantum world in which everyone and everything is now instantaneously interconnected something completely new must emerge and business as usual is not an option. Nor is the option advocated by Jardine, which, although he pretends otherwise is just more of the same (turbo-charged business as usual) This set of references describe the state of the humanly created world in the "21st century", how we got to here, and what if anything we can do about it. http://www.dabase.org/not2p1.htm http://sacredcamelgardens.com/wordpress/reality-humanity http://www.beezone.com/news.html http://www.coteda.com/fundamentals/index.html Posted by Daffy Duck, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 2:14:48 PM
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Oh, and the doom-sayers are exposed, laughed out of all credibility and deported to live in the kind of virgin, resource-free island environment that they've been telling us to aspire to for so long.