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Humanity is in the early stages of the most significant evolution in its history: learning to think as a species.
This is the linking of human minds, values, information and solutions at lightspeed and in real time around the planet, via the internet and social media, says science writer Julian Cribb.
Global thought is opening the way to solve some of humanity's greatest threats – including climate change, famine, global poisoning, weapons of mass destruction, environmental collapse, resource scarcity and overpopulation, says Mr Cribb, who is the author of 'Surviving the 21st Century' (Springer 2017), a new book describing the ten mega-threats and what can be done about them.
"Thanks to the internet and social media, people are for the first time communicating across the barriers of language, race, nationality, religion, region and gender. While the internet contains much rubbish and malignance, it also contains huge amounts of goodwill, trustworthy science-based advice, practical solutions to problems – and people joining hands in good causes."
(Score: 4, Interesting) by jmorris on Wednesday March 29 2017, @03:01AM (6 children)
This guy gets his book published right at the moment the trend toward globalism hit a limit and now we are heading back down to nationalism and smaller groups.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @03:47AM (4 children)
jmorris! Wrong again! Nazi sympathizing not gonna work, bro!
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Wednesday March 29 2017, @04:19AM (3 children)
I'm normally one to fall in line to call jmo bad names, but he's kind of got a point here. Voting Trump was the counterargument to Globalism. I didn't vote for him, but I'm not kidding myself about what I'm seeing. If that's not good enough for you, consider how well the nationalist parties are doing in France and Germany. Maybe not ever outright winning material, but neither was Trump in his own country up until he did win..
I'm just a drunk Bernie supporter who calls it like he sees it though. Whad'do I know, right?
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday March 29 2017, @05:47AM
djolive, is that you?
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday March 29 2017, @07:20AM (1 child)
It all depends on what Trump [is allowed to] achieve.
The real father of the EU has been herr Hitler.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 1) by ewk on Wednesday March 29 2017, @11:37AM
"The real father of the EU has been herr Hitler."
Nope... not even close. (*)
Scaring people into doing X to prevent Y (from happening again) does not make you the (moral or otherwise) father of X...
(*) Even Napoleon did a better (but in the end just as unsuccessful) job in unifying Europa. Although we did at least get the metric system out of that...
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @08:53AM
Smaller groups will protect none. It is the large groups wanting to sink their teeth into smaller groups, and they are discontent with this unnecessary truce with the weak. There were never those super-global groups you are thinking of, just a pray wishing to become domesticated cattle (or auxiliary hunters - a.k.a. dogs) to their predators, in hope of survival, and now they are being pushed back out in the wild to be hunted. We'll see how it ends (unless there is another change) and what happens after the end.
The real reason behind this isn't that there is not enough for everyone, but that what was on the table is mostly already in fat bellies of a few, and now late comers to the feast need to get some for themselves too, so some new eggs will be cracked, some more game will die, and lot more dirty faces will have their arm twisted to their backs as their possessions are taken away.