Interdependence and Coexistence
Interdependence is obvious. Global coexistence is our common cause.
Interdependence is obvious. Global coexistence is our common cause.
Seven Billion Members In less than 200 years, there’s been a 700% increase in the number of people living on earth. The human population of the earth reached a billion people for the first time in the early 1800’s. There were two billion of us around 1927, three billion in 1960, four billion in 1974,…
Women in Saudi Arabia will be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, which are the only public polls in the country, the BBC reports. The BBC’s world-affairs correspondent, Emily Buchanan, says it is an extraordinary development for Saudi Arabian women, who are not allowed to drive or to leave the…
This is a very important time in human history, because whatever we’re in charge of and responsible for, we’re in charge of and responsible for now.
When will humanity’s genetically all-mutt races move beyond global traditions of destructive prejudice based on cosmetic factors to more constructive common ground?
And when will the destructive consequences of violently imposed anti-education attitudes, implanted by whip and lynching, weaken their hold on victims and perpetrators? Simon Legree still haunts many lands today including our own. He says, “Boys, better not dream about bettering yourselves, quit dreaming and join my gang.” And he says, “Girls, know your place and do what you’re told or I’m going to beat and stone you!” Male violence against women is the Simon Legree of gender.
Weapons drones with names like Predator and Reaper are now actively engaged in combat. A recent article in The Economist suggests that the “next generation of drones will have artificial intelligence giving them a high degree of operational autonomy including – if legal and ethical questions can be resolved – the [self-contained?] ability to shoot…
The defense of civilization is everybody’s personal business.