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NEW WORLD FUTURE FUND MULTIMEDIA SECTION
2009: THE GATHERING STORM
SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE DEEPENING GLOBAL CRISIS
For fifteen years we have been studying trends and their relationship to long term trends in history. In 2008 it became more apparent than ever before that our current political and economic world "order" is failing. These are some observations about history and time. They are short audio files. You click on them and they will open in your Windows Media Player. These short speeches highlight observations from our World Future Outlook Report. Note: After you listen to each lecture, simply click the "BACK" button on your browser, and you will get back to this index page.
HISTORY AND TIME (5 MINUTES)
Places our current world "order" in the context of billions of years of ecological time.
HISTORY AND MORALITY (4 MINUTES)
Evaluates our world "order" in terms of long term visions of morality. Is this a good system that has merely gone astray or is it a malevolent system that is working in accordance with its inner dynamics.
HUMAN RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES (2 MINUTES)
Human rights cannot exist with human responsibilities. They cannot be defended in isolation. If a world system is destroying the biological foundations of life itself, human rights will cease to exist.
THE GLOBAL POLITICAL FUTURE (10 MINUTES)
Today's world "order" is hardly some sort of culmination of human wisdom. Indeed, it has very shallow roots in the long term sweep of human history.
Once this fact it realized, it becomes apparent that we need a much wider vision in the world of global political philosophy than the "Washington Consensus" that followed the the end of the Cold War.
REFORM 2009: REALITY AND FANTASY (5 MINUTES)
Is Obama's plan for trillions more in new debt to replace old debt really a way out of the crisis?
DEBT AND DECEPTION: A LOOK AT THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE (5 MINUTES)
This looks at the growing importance of Europe and how different parts of the world will react to the deepening crisis.
LIFE AND DEATH ON PLANET EARTH: THE LIMITS OF POPULATION (5 MINUTES)
What is the limit of the human population? This issue is really not discussed.
We discuss it here and consider the political implications of the reality of a return to a more normal size of the human population.
The greatest threat is not reaction but fake reform. A discussion of the high cost of real reform.
MORE THOUGHTS ON WORLD POPULATION
Who has a right to life? Only humans?
PLANNING AHEAD FOR MORE PEOPLE:
A REALISTIC LOOK AT WHAT IS LIKELY TO COME
When a "right to life" turns into a certainty of death on a huge scale.