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Listening to the Voice of HumanitySteven Kull
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| When we look at world conditions and project current trends into the future we see much that is disturbing—environmental degradation, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, persisting poverty and injustice, violent conflict, the fiscal collapse of democratic governments. The institutions that have the greatest power—nation states, corporations, and organized interest group—seem locked in patterns of self-interested behavior such that the necessary changes are hard to imagine. Yet when we look to the past we see that there have been remarkable evolutionary changes—the emergence of democracy, the abolition of slavery, universally recognized principles of the rights of women and minorities, concern for the environment, international laws against aggressive wars and significant efforts by those in wealthy nations to address global poverty. During the run-up to these changes, they too surely seemed unimaginable. Download the entire article as a PDF below: Listening to the Voice of Humanity |
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