I do not get the impression that the governance of the world is good or that it is getting better. The gap between rich and poor is widening horribly – 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 and greater sum of misery and deprived dependency on earth? The passivity before the ‘inevitability’ of this sort of globalisation is one of its most depressing effects.
I read every day, looking for hope whenever I can find it. I wish to share such hope especially with my sons and grandchildren whose century this will be in which to thrive or struggle, exult or tremble. I find I have jotted down in my journal at various times the following thoughts:
