For the global problematique, this same principle of looking for underlying connections means choosing to study the world and its ailments as a whole. For global problems, this means focusing on how all the human and environmental processes might be changing. It is necessary to understand that all your reform efforts and good works are shooting at a moving target. Third, just as in natural phenomena, human society phenomena must be studied with reproducible, comprehensive, objective evidence. It is not enought to gather data on the weather, oceans, living creatures, etc. of earth.
Data are also essential concerning human groupings, societies, polities, economic behavior, etc.
The ancients did not have it. Without these scientific underpinnings the many wonderfully intended efforts to help people on this Earth amount to the same as medicine in the Middle Ages of Europe, with now way to distinguish between goods like bed rest and bads like bloodletting. Because of this ignorance, the present efforts by George Soros and so many others seem probably doomed to failure. We lack the material support to find out. If only Mr. Soros would give us a tiny slice of the millions he has spent on good works, then we could begin to answer that question.