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1/3/13

The Future: High Stakes for Humanity’s Future - by Rick Docksai

Americans once thought that landing astronauts on the Moon would be impossible, but the U.S. government’s Apollo program made it happen within a mere 10 years. It is now time for China and the United States to jointly marshal an Apollo-like program to tackle climate change and boost renewable energy, argue the authors (Gerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, Elizabeth Florescu) of the 2012 State of the Future report which can be purchased from Amazon.

The report praises global progress in many areas of life but sounds warnings about our overall future.

“It is increasingly clear that the world has the resources to address its challenges. It is also increasingly clear that the current decisionmaking structures are not making good decisions fast enough and on the scale necessary to really address the global challenges,” the report states.

The Millennium Project, an international, participatory think tank, has been publishing the State of the Future reports annually since 1996. Like its predecessors, this year’s report drew from ongoing surveys of 3,000 contributing researchers to compile a list of 15 Global Challenges that world leaders will have to address collaboratively, as well as a State of the Future Index (SOFI) that delineates areas of life that are improving and others that are worsening or remaining unchanged.

Read more: High Stakes for Humanity’s Future | World Future Society

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