admin /4 March, 2012
A serious study of the future of humanity, such as the ongoing review of the Millenium Development Goals, indicates that humanity is not guaranteed to succeed in its attempts to avoid a major collapse.
… deniers tell voters, “grab what you can and let the rest of the world succumb to flood, starvation, pestilence and death”
The Millenium Development Goals, well described in the book World Poverty for Dummies, are more than half way through the time allotted for their enaction. On most of them, we are less than half way toward achieving those goals.
This in itself is not alarming, goals are always aspirational and need to be reviewed.
What is alarming is that the key headline aim is to avoid the end of civilisation, and that is a project which we would prefer to succeed. The key aim is to tackle world poverty and so prevent the richest nations maintaining their wealth at the expense (and possibly death) of the majority of the world’s poor.