Too many people still live in abject poverty and in many places exploitation of water, land and other natural resources is well above critical limits. More . . . The world is a living biological organism, not just a planetary rock with life somehow superimposed on it. This is the so-called gaia hypothesis developed by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis. It changes Earth for its own purposes.
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners.
More . . . Since I arrived at the OECD in 1996, I have participated in more conferences on more issues than I would have imagined possible. These many and varied meetings focused on almost every area of public policy. Without exaggeration, I can report that in all cases a common thread of consensus was education as the fundamental building block of social and economic progress. I doubt it.