Contents
Extract from THE REALITY OF GLOBAL CRISES
Introduction Hidden consequences of an interconnected world
Chapter 1 CAPITALISM CRISES
The unsolved puzzle of the banking crises
Reasons any sensible bank tries to keep things as they are
Why escalating global financial crises are inevitable
Changing faster than the competition
The open-secret that 70% of change-initiatives fail
Rolling News and the unintended distortions it creates
Blind leading the blind
How politicians and journalists each Dance with the Devil
The fallacy regarding how Survival of the Fittest works
Reducing the threats: UNELECTED RESPONSIBILITY
Chapter 2 INDUSTRIALIZATION CRISES
How one-time energy got the world-economy addicted
Clouded interpretations of pollution
Climate-change and confusion
The reality behind scientific consensus
Why oil and energy suppliers feel it wrong to tell the truth
Limited alternatives for Alternative Energy
Escalating energy costs and powerlessness
Locked on course for a slow‑motion economic crash
Reducing the threats: TRUE COSTING
Chapter 3 POPULATION CRISES
Competitive Overuse
Depleting forests and depleting top-soil
The imminent collapse of world fish stocks
Why unsustainable water usage threatens food supplies
Current early-stage failure of crucial ecosystems
China and India – and so us all – at severe medium-term risk
Once again locked on course
National self-interest and political short-sightedness
Nearing an end-stage of catastrophic collapse
Reducing the threats: COLLECTIVE SUSTAINABILITY
Chapter 4 RELIGION CRISES
The blessing and the curse of long-established religions
Alternatives that people were never exposed to before
The inexorable escalation of scientific revelation
24/7 on how religious leaders behave and the advice they give
Unprecedented access to confusion
How intolerance and dogmatism lead to polarization
Why ‘Western depravity’ insults Islamic fundamentalists
Why the Religious Right feels it has to take over the world
Why the Vatican has to be so conservative it risks schism
End of days
Reducing the threats: MIRRORED TOLERANCE
Chapter 5 HIGH-TECH CRISES
Global vulnerability to disruptions in High-Tech
The near-total defenselessness of modern society
IT and telecom networks under growing cyberattack
How pharmaceuticals risk being overwhelmed by bacteria
Deliberate bioterrorism or a silly mistake
When even the Scientific Method risks failing
Reducing the threats: PRE‑EMPTIVE RECOVERY
Chapter 6 GLOBALIZATION CRISES
Everything simultaneously better and worse
Wild market swings, economic crashes and social meltdown
The unintended lack of control brought by multinationals
Unmanageable pandemics
Immigration time-bombs
An international community on permanent alert
Why the Establishment appears to suffer from bad people
Impossible challenges that governments nonetheless accept
How the EU, NATO and other supranational bodies all fail
The inevitable but fundamental inadequacies of the UN
An entire world-economy in peril
Reducing the threats: HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 7 TAKING THE INITIATIVE
If not now – then when?
If not the most powerful – then who?
Trusted Observers
Vigilant Counselors
Global Advocates
Accelerating Responsiveness to crises
Focusing on High-Impact-but-Difficult changes
Good-enough to get started
The seven rules of Global Guilds
Global realignment