Today’s extremists include the 62 people in the world who have as much money as half the world’s population, the industrialists influencing the environmental policies that threaten the future of the human race, the bankers creating an artificially inflated economy for the benefit of speculators and the detriment of everyone else, and the people who use religion as a reason to inspire hatred, violence or war.
This offers hope - and this is what we need in 2016, in a world where boundaries are becoming less and less meaningful.
This offers hope - and this is what we need in 2016, in a world where boundaries are becoming less and less meaningful.
Now more than ever, we are one people. No matter where we live, we are all equally powerless in the face of war or environmental disaster. We need to realize that we live in this world together - and our best way of surviving, and prospering even, is by working together ‘for tomorrow’.
If we want to think about a better future, we need to do so on a global scale.
We need to reject the politics of confrontation and stop thinking in absolute terms of right and wrong, of them and us.
We need to reject the politics of confrontation and stop thinking in absolute terms of right and wrong, of them and us.
We need to put aside our difference by talking and listening to each other and taking action to determine our own futures, as it’s clear that our governments (who are too tied down by commercial or political restrictions) won’t act unless we demand it. We need change to come from the bottom-up: from us.