Budapest Club's Global Issues Report (The Third Millennium)

Author: Owen R. Young (USA), translated by Wang Hongchang and Wang Yudie
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: Of course, we can only be optimistic. This book is fundamentally optimistic. Pessimists do not need to exercise their minds. The role of the individual is to think globally so as to live responsibly. This requires creating a new corporate culture and broadening the horizons of governments in various countries. Perhaps the latter is the most challenging, because we must glimpse beyond the myths of nation-states. Owen R. Young confirms that there must be a set of environmental ethical norms, and subsequently, a culture of interdependence. Even as an ideal, to seek unity in the diversity that seems to separate us—not just as members of the human race, but as holders of the passports we have described. Owen R. Young lists the creative path of human evolution, through science, inevitably also through art and religion, which can be collectively called culture, and then through what he calls alternative and young cultures. At the end, he notes what still needs to be done for the next evaluation, because thought must not end—if its rules are not to become fossils with the passage of time that never ceases. This book is a challenge to original thinkers, pioneers, and the creativity of human genius. Owen R. Young, this renowned scientist, places before us some unexpected weapons in our arsenal. The concept of matter, the nature of life, and—last but not least—the power of the mind.