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According to the authors of the present book,
imaging the future, building networks and learning are deliberate actions working today as well
and could have important roles in establishing a
more developed society. Considering that all
people, or at least those in leading positions—not
to mention politicians—could be educated to tell
the truth, serious concerns are raised in the
authors. It is a different question whether wellinformed people educated for critical thinking
would believe lies or not and if they did would
they expel politicians or dismiss leaders. This
depends on the quality of education and the progress of social consciousness altogether. Another
major concern is love becoming more general
than today. Meadows et al. (2004) describe new
humanism that has to foster the development of a
new scale of values that would restore our internal balance, the feeling of love and friendship,
sympathy and solidarity and a number of other
positive human characteristics. The authors think
that this aim—bearing in mind the diversity of
people and interest groups, their different religious and social background—is unfortunately
impossible to realise globally. The most that we
can hope for is that the majority of humanity will
recognise common problems threatening people
and the global society as knowledge regarding
the Earth grows, and people will be ready to act
in order to solve these common problems.
6 Steps Towards Realising Global Sustainable Development
According to the authors of the present book,
imaging the future, building networks and learning are deliberate actions working today as well
and could have important roles in establishing a
more developed society. Considering that all
people, or at least those in leading positions—not
to mention politicians—could be educated to tell
the truth, serious concerns are raised in the
authors. It is a different question whether wellinformed people educated for critical thinking
would believe lies or not and if they did would
they expel politicians or dismiss leaders. This
depends on the quality of education and the progress of social consciousness altogether. Another
major concern is love becoming more general
than today. Meadows et al. (2004) describe new
humanism that has to foster the development of a
new scale of values that would restore our internal balance, the feeling of love and friendship,
sympathy and solidarity and a number of other
positive human characteristics. The authors think
that this aim—bearing in mind the diversity of
people and interest groups, their different religious and social background—is unfortunately
impossible to realise globally. The most that we
can hope for is that the majority of humanity will
recognise common problems threatening people
and the global society as knowledge regarding
the Earth grows, and people will be ready to act
in order to solve these common problems.
6 Steps Towards Realising Global Sustainable Development