Our water, air and soil are poisoned. Many of our families and communities are breaking down. We re having trouble feeding everyone. Violent crime continues in most places. Terrorism occurs frequently in so many countries.
Nuclear annihilation remains a possibility.
Poverty and disease afflict our global family too commonly. This world is a product of the way we have thought, felt and acted over many centuries. In its triumphs and in its shuddering inadequacies, it represents what we as a human race have been thinking about life and ourselves so far. Our regular manner of doing things has resulted in the present worldwide condition good and bad. Considering humanity as a unit which it most assuredly is we might observe that however numerous and wondrous our advances, there are obviously some shortcomings in our routines of thinking and doing.