| THE FUTURE Sanderson: continuing/wider extension of progress or ...??? Several serious challenges: World population growth: by 2010 at least 3 billion increase, 90%+ in poorest countries Ecological degradation: the �progress trap� the spread of prosperity increases eco degradation Nuclear war: increasing pressures, decreasing constraints A World State? Inevitable product of capitalist globalization? What kind of world state? The eventual collapse of Capitalism? Other issues: The political economy of oil Jihad vs. McWorld and "terrorism" |