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I know of it, man, I'm not yet quite sure how it's best interpreted though. What specifically would be your concerns with it? What I've seen so far tends to lead make me think it's more along the lines of a collaborative voluntary initiative to increase international co-operation... which to me makes a great deal of sense given that increasingly as a species we're facing global threats and challenges. Certainly greater sustainability - which is claimed as a primary goal of TGR - is something we should all be aiming for, it should be blindingly obvious to anyone that a growing population in a world of finite and diminishing resources can only lead to catastophe, especially under an economic systewm which actually encourages and even demands wasteful consumption.
Where it becomes more problematic is if and/or when it such initiatives start to impact on ********ic rights or becomes able to enforce supranational legislature against the ********ic wishes of the people of signatory nations. So far it looks to me much like the huge furor over agenda 21 which was also entirely voluntary but aroused the ire of various pressure and lobbying groups with connections to the petrochemical industry who have gone to great lengths to oversell it as an attack on US personal freedoms.
Just outta curiosity what do you see as the way forward for the world yourself? ... In my view for better or worse we are now inextrcably part of both a global community and a global economy, technologically and economically linked across national and other traditional societal boundaries. In some way as a species we have to embrace that - accept it, or otherwise try to roll back the clock to an earlier age of national seperation and rivalries of the sort that led to the catastrophic wars of the 20th C. And given that resources are increasingly gonna be under pressure in coming decades I can only see that ending extremely badly.
I honestly don't know the answers (I personally believe in more atomised socieites and folk living, working and making decisions in smaller interlinked units - voluntary communes or syndicates - but I got no roadmap and I'm digressing) but it does seem to me that greater rather than less international co-operation has to be a good thing though I'm deeply sceptical of the WEF and this particular program. It's a genuine enquiry though... what sort of future do you see for the world and our individual nations, or alternatively what sort of future do you believe is most likely?
...Damn, this thread's gonna need shifting to the lounge if we carry on like this... and I'm behind with the PIck Em updating too... gotta get on that.
Where it becomes more problematic is if and/or when it such initiatives start to impact on ********ic rights or becomes able to enforce supranational legislature against the ********ic wishes of the people of signatory nations. So far it looks to me much like the huge furor over agenda 21 which was also entirely voluntary but aroused the ire of various pressure and lobbying groups with connections to the petrochemical industry who have gone to great lengths to oversell it as an attack on US personal freedoms.
Just outta curiosity what do you see as the way forward for the world yourself? ... In my view for better or worse we are now inextrcably part of both a global community and a global economy, technologically and economically linked across national and other traditional societal boundaries. In some way as a species we have to embrace that - accept it, or otherwise try to roll back the clock to an earlier age of national seperation and rivalries of the sort that led to the catastrophic wars of the 20th C. And given that resources are increasingly gonna be under pressure in coming decades I can only see that ending extremely badly.
I honestly don't know the answers (I personally believe in more atomised socieites and folk living, working and making decisions in smaller interlinked units - voluntary communes or syndicates - but I got no roadmap and I'm digressing) but it does seem to me that greater rather than less international co-operation has to be a good thing though I'm deeply sceptical of the WEF and this particular program. It's a genuine enquiry though... what sort of future do you see for the world and our individual nations, or alternatively what sort of future do you believe is most likely?
...Damn, this thread's gonna need shifting to the lounge if we carry on like this... and I'm behind with the PIck Em updating too... gotta get on that.
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