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It is the true obscenity. It has to change. It's one big ball of twine. It's all one. Global Warming, a fair and just economy that gives everyone a decent life, a world with diverse life in healthy habitats, energy that is renewing, a world without torture of any kind - a vision. We have to have the vision - and it can happen. How? I think about this every now and again - and I think it's a combination of a global vision and local control.

Being a Science Fiction writer - Fantasist in my salad days - I could spin tales on how this might happen (not that I did or have on this particular subject - but that it would be or would have been my penchant to spin as Gernsback said: 'if this goes on.....what.....'). I could see the dire results of Global Warming in the worst case scenario be the impetus for both the local control and the global vision. Technology would keep the world aware as one - but the physical realities of land masses greatly reduced, with lakes and inland seas - more islands - would mean smaller national entities and local control. Massive oceans and inland seas would mean natural barriers to warring with neighbors. The issue would always be resources and how the areas choose to deal with sharing. I could see an internet-like technology being key, maybe.

<blockquote data-quote="Tyger" data-source="post: 193860" data-attributes="member: 6534">It is the true obscenity. It has to change. It&#039;s one big ball of twine. It&#039;s all one. Global Warming, a fair and just economy that gives everyone a decent life, a world with diverse life in healthy habitats, energy that is renewing, a world without torture of any kind - a vision. We have to have the vision - and it can happen. How? I think about this every now and again - and I think it&#039;s a combination of a global vision and local control.Being a Science Fiction writer - Fantasist in my salad days - I could spin tales on how this might happen (not that I did or have on this particular subject - but that it would be or would have been my penchant to spin as Gernsback said: &#039;if this goes on.....what.....&#039;). I could see the dire results of&nbsp; Global Warming in the worst case scenario be the impetus for both the local control and the global vision. Technology would keep the world aware as one - but the physical realities of land masses greatly reduced, with lakes and inland seas - more islands - would mean smaller national entities and local control. Massive oceans and inland seas would mean natural barriers to warring with neighbors. The issue would always be resources and how the areas choose to deal with sharing. I could see an internet-like technology being key, maybe.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tyger, post: 193860, member: 6534"] It is the true obscenity. It has to change. It's one big ball of twine. It's all one. Global Warming, a fair and just economy that gives everyone a decent life, a world with diverse life in healthy habitats, energy that is renewing, a world without torture of any kind - a vision. We have to have the vision - and it can happen. How? I think about this every now and again - and I think it's a combination of a global vision and local control. Being a Science Fiction writer - Fantasist in my salad days - I could spin tales on how this might happen (not that I did or have on this particular subject - but that it would be or would have been my penchant to spin as Gernsback said: 'if this goes on.....what.....'). I could see the dire results of Global Warming in the worst case scenario be the impetus for both the local control and the global vision. Technology would keep the world aware as one - but the physical realities of land masses greatly reduced, with lakes and inland seas - more islands - would mean smaller national entities and local control. Massive oceans and inland seas would mean natural barriers to warring with neighbors. The issue would always be resources and how the areas choose to deal with sharing. I could see an internet-like technology being key, maybe. [/QUOTE]

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