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Planet-Wide Problems

Authored by Michael Pate on June 22nd, 2003 at 2:11 PM

Outside the US, most people believe the planet recently suffered a massive, bomb-flinging breakdown in the new world order. The news is worse: There never was any order to break down. If the war in Iraq had gone badly for the US, the world would now be staring into an abyss, a pit of lawless, dog-eat-dog mayhem. We need - we really need - a global civil society that isn’t made of toffee and chicken wire. Forging it will require new ideas, methods, and technologies, new principles and a new realism. If we can’t confront the big issues with real grit, competence, and determination, we’ve got problems waiting that will make Iraq look like Disneyland. - Bruce Sterling

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