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And it is articles like this that may stimulate that debate
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i'll second that.
it is articles like this that may stimulate that debate
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We cannot begin to solve the issues before we identify them
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i've said a similar thing several times. well... its basically the same thing, just that i say it in a rather more pompus manner: To solve a problem we must first identify it.
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Although there must be a stimulae. What that will be I can only guess.
Current favourite is disease, a more extreme SARs type event. Anything where "the shrinking planet" can be blamed. High speed travel, urban sprawl, blah de blah, yakety smackety.
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yeah. totally.
"yakety smackety" lol.
technology can provide many solutions, cures, preventions to many of these problems. but technology alone can never be the whole package to a solution to any of these potential "stimulae" issues. there must be the political will and manueverability to back it up as well as education & freedom of knowledge to the people.
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I would say the environment is one of the global core issues, not only for it's obvious importance but also on purely logistical basis legislating environmental issues locally with no global "plan" is a little pointless.
Kyoto and the US is my favourite example of this.
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in exact agreement there.
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Again I think it depends largely on your def of globlalisation.
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if pressed (which i suppose i am since you asked twice) i'd say that when i speak of globalisation here i usually mean enforced or actively set-up globalisation with some inevitable semi-enforced blending/merger of cultures, currency, laws etc. as opposed to a more natural step by step progression through ever streangthening relations and alliances. like the current direction of europe for example (asuming the most recent proposal doesnt go entirely as planned- sheesh
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to quote the late great bill hicks:
Its a strange world, but i'm proud to be part of it.
it took me a while to understand and appreciate what exactly he meant by that, i didnt think it fit with his demeanor towards the world.... but it does.