Issue 4
In This Issue
Security Reflections: A Holistic Approach Without Nuclear Weapons
There are present dangers to our biological and social environments which no one nation, or a small group of nations, no matter how powerful, can adequately address alone. These threats are global in nature and require cooperation rather than competition as the appropriate response. Maintenance of the implicit threat posed by the existence of the horrific destructive power of nuclear arsenals is incompatible…
Lead Articles
Security Reflections: A Holistic Approach Without Nuclear Weapons
Cooperation is no longer merely admirable as a human trait; it is imperative for our very survival − our family values must be awakened...
Having identified the problem – that nuclear weapons endanger the human species and much of complex life – we should move rapidly toward eliminating the threat....
We have stopped caring for each other to the extent that our lives have become one prolonged saga of narcissistic preening and of proving ourselves better than our neighbours...
Quo Vadis? Cultural Reorientation – Our Shared Journey
Who would dispute that a spiritual renewal of our culture is long overdue? The profound impact of the severe economic crisis we are experiencing has led to many concerned analyses. These are often ...
Something America and China Could Do Together
It may be an exaggeration to say that as Chinese-American relations go, so goes the world, but it’s probably not far from the mark. I’m not only thinking...
Creativity has become one of those “buzz” words that everyone gives lip services to. Put the word “creativity” into the title of a book and it will be a best seller. People ask: How can creativity be fostered?...
Ways of Knowing: Life Beyond Chaos
The first necessity is to recognize that the limitations of present knowledge are the result of the limitations of the mental faculties we employ and that the solution lies not in endless,...
Being in Superposition: Migrating Women, Modern Subjectivity & the New Collectivity
Superposition is not only a realization of the multiplicity within the self but also a gathering of one’s positions...
Need for a New Economic Theory
There are thousands of books and articles these days, including political declarations at all levels, particularly in the “developed” countries, invoking “growth” as a basic factor to solve major economic problems...
Privacy is Not Dead, it is Just Resting
When Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, said in 2010 that he thought that people wanted to be more open about sharing personal information he was suggesting that our views on personal privacy have shifted greatly in a very short time. When he and ...
Graeme Maxton & Octavian Ksenzhek
It is easy to want to live in a world without limits. We don’t want to be constrained by anything, to be held back. Like long distance runners and formula one racing car drivers, ...
State of the World is an annual publication begun in 1984 by Lester W. Brown, founder of Worldwatch and now heading the Earth Policy Institute. SOTW 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity ...