Whoops!

We are being brought up short in so many ways.
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Our vaunted technology is failing to answer many of our more pressing problems.
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Not being unkind but one could observe that our technology has consistently created more and not less problems over the course of our history.
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This might not matter however as we have mastered more we have also increased the scope of greater destruction and potential disasters.
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And if not greater destruction then the increased risks of unexpected side effects.
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When those risks go global then this matters a lot.
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Today we have several candidates for global impact.
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Electronic devices held to ears, are we are told, not harmful.
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I beg to differ over time this behaviour must impact our brains.
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Because of the casual use of ever stronger antibiotics we are soon into an era analogous to the 1920's before they had antibiotics.
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Simply because we have no further magic answers left in the laboratories.
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Check out for yourself how people died at that time from simple things such as colds or flu.
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GM anything pose great dangers because the long term and side effects are not known.
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What is known is that it is impossible to contain the spread of these products, possibly with devastating consequences.
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Pollution of all kinds is an issue of increasingly global proportions.
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Water issues are going global.
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With over seventy five percent of the globe covered in water one might wonder how we could arrive at this point.
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Bad management, over population in urban areas and the rest.
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Soil erosion is becoming a major issue as top soil disappears or blows away.
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How are we going to feed those soon to be seven billion of us?
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The global financial system is out of control, unstable and likely to destruct.
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No new model is possible with those who have unwilling to share or give up their wealth
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Likely conflict as those without become desperate.
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Special interest groups are wreaking untold damage through their narrow concerns.
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Sitting in a train heading for the abyss is the fate of most modern humans.
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This is not something way out there in the future.
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This is where we are now.
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No it is not for the next generation.
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It is our time now.
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We can just ignore things until they hit us personally and many maybe most will do this.
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You can inform yourself though about a way out.
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Which you might even want to get involved with.
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Want a good read that is positive on our future?
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Then get hold of "Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition"  by Charles Eisenstein.