I do not get the impression that governance in the world is good or that it is getting better. The gap between rich and poor is widening – between countries and within countries. The world’s environment, mankind’s patrimony, is suffering gradual ruin. The main institutions of the world are organized to enhance and protect the wealth and influence of the powerful. How can we accept that these three world tendencies are bound to continue, inexorably producing what is a greater sum of misery and deprived dependency on earth? Such passivity before the ‘inevitability’ of this sort of globalisation is depressing.
I read every day, looking for hope whenever I can find it. I would very much like to share such hope especially with my sons, whose century this will be in which to thrive or struggle, exult or tremble. But, sadly, I find I have jotted down in my journal at
