CHAPTER 15
Planet Earth
What Is Known
With an ever-increasing population and greater connectivity, it is possible to view earth as a relatively ever-diminishing sphere in which all living creatures will still need to coexist. Ultimate survival depends on planning for humans’ future, in which room has to be made for the survival of other animal species, if for no other reason than that any extinction of any life forms could be a forerunner to what happens to humans.
The question becomes of priority in survival be directed? The eight millennium goals of 2000, representing the best that countries could come up with at the time, may be a start but might also be seen as slightly ad hoc and, in light of the present, would need to be revised, so, for ...
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