Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Monday, January 30, 2006
Thinking Big.
Really, really big.

The most potent threats to life on earth - global warming, health pandemics, poverty and armed conflict - could be ended by moves that would unlock $7 trillion - $7,000,000,000,000 (£3.9trn) - of previously untapped wealth, the United Nations claims today.

The price? An admission that the nation-state is an old-fashioned concept that has no role to play in a modern globalised world where financial markets have to be harnessed rather than simply condemned.

I still need time to digest all this. Is this a forward-thinking push toward world cooperation or is it a ploy by corporations to create a Randian utopia? I really don't know. The world desperately need to act as one for the good of all mankind but I don't know that this is the answer. As an American, I have learned to distrust almost everyone.
At the top of their wish list is curbing emissions that lead to global warming. As long as Bush is president, that won't happen. Fortunately, some are doing an end run around the fool on the hill.
Written at 7:40 AM by Lynne.
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