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Twentieth century
The 20th century is often portrayed as a time of barbarism, when increasingly powerful weapons killed on an enormous scale, oppressive dictatorships flourished and national, ethnic and religious conflicts raged.
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Yet 20th century was also a time when people lived longer, were healthier and more literate, enjoyed greater participation in politics and had far easier access to information, transport and communication networks than ever before. Good & Evil marches on. In 21st century, will there be trouble?
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Bhrighu Nadi prophetic readings: From 2011, crisis deepens as money will lose its value fast in the U.S. and in Europe. This will result in wrong economic and financial policies - on the assumption of hopes for a continuous economic growth. In 2012 the U.S. financial system collapses. The state will no longer be able to pay its employees. This will lead to a chain response and chaos in the society as a whole. Many shops, factories and banks will become bankrupt, more and more people will be without work, and thus without livelihoods.
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The palm leaf text volume "prophesied" contains forecasts concerning the further development of Europe and western hemisphere. The economic situation leads to conditions that will resemble a civil war in the east and west United
Overpopulation,
Global warming / Climate change,
Diseases and
Warfare Shall we overcome these?
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Mankind has produced a Mother Theresa and also, a Osama Bin Laden.
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Greenhouse effect
Can mankind survive by mitigating effect of global warming / CLIMATE CHANGE due to greenhouse effect?
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Greenhouse effect
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Scientists are making predictions about the ill effects of Global warming and connecting some of the events of the past few decades as an alarm of global warming. A rise in earths temperatures can lead to other alterations in the
ecology, including
an increasing sea level and modifying the quantity and pattern of rainfall.
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famines,
heat waves,
tornados, and
twisters.
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Other consequences may comprise of higher or lower agricultural outputs, glacier melting,
The global warming is extending the distribution of mosquitoes due to the increase in humidity levels and their frequent growth in warmer atmosphere. Various diseases due to
ebola,
hanta and machupo virus are expected due to warmer climates.
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The marine life is sensitive to the increase in temperatures. The effect of global warming will definitely be seen on some species in the water. A survey was made in which the marine life reacted significantly to the changes in water temperatures. Many species may die off or become extinct due to
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Electricity can be produced without significant carbon emissions using nuclear power and renewable energy technologies, such as solar,
Poisoning by pollution
And, at least in the short term, severe pollution seems almost inevitable when uncontrolled population growth is combined with demands for an acceptable standard of living.
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OVERPOPULATION?: The world's population doubled between 1940 and 2000 (to reach six billion), with 90 per cent of the total growth in the 1990s taking place in the non-industrialized regions of the world. Population increases were accompanied by rapid urbanization, unplanned
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OVERPOPULATION
Myth A: The world is overcrowded and population growth is adding overwhelming numbers of humans to a small planet. In fact, people do live in crowded conditions, and always have. We cluster together in cities and villages in order to exchange goods and services with one another. But while we crowd together for economic reasons in our great metropolitan areas, most of the world is empty, as we can see when we fly over it. It has been estimated by Paul Ehrlich and others that human beings actually occupy no more than 1 to 3 percent of the earth's land surface.
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OVERPOPULATION Myth B: Overpopulation is threatening the world food supply. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, world food supplies exceed requirements in all world areas, amounting to a surplus approaching 50 percent in 1990 in the developed countries, and 17 percent in the developing regions. "Globally, food supplies have more than doubled in the last 40 years between 1962 and 1991, average daily per caput food supplies increased more than 15 percent at a global level, there is probably no obstacle to food production rising to meet demand," according to FAO documents prepared for the 1996 World Food Summit. 29
development.
It emphasizes the need for priority in
within communities.
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Differential Rates of Population Growth in India Indias current fertility rate is 2.8 children per woman.
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By 2025, efforts have to be made to educate, empower and train in life skills, the people of crowded districts of rural North India. The demographic duality should not be allowed to widen the gap between north and south. Entrepreneurial families from north India have lived for decades in southern cities, but absorption of unskilled labourers looking for work may rekindle dormant animosities unless socio-cultural
As was shown by the Black Death of the Middle Ages, diseases can wipe out very large proportions of those exposed to them. They can now spread world wide very quickly, thanks to air travel. Many remain incurable. Tuberculosis, already killing about three million people annually, has recently developed strains resistant to all known drugs, and antibiotics are useless against viral diseases.
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Natural disasters
1 Volcanic eruptions. 2 Hits by asteroids and comets. 3 An extreme ice age due to passage
through an interstellar cloud? 4 A nearby supernova 5 Other massive astronomical explosions 6 Essentially unpredictable breakdown of a complex system.
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Man-made disasters
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Unwillingness to rear children? A disaster from genetic engineering. A disaster from nanotechnology. Some other disaster in a branch of technology, perhaps just agricultural, which had become crucial to human survival.
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Production costs are falling and the world has many multibillionaires.
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The effects of large-scale nuclear destruction are largely unknown. Radiation poisoning of the entire globe? Nuclear winter in which dust and soot block sunlight, so that temperatures everywhere fall very sharply
less costly, and with a field of destruction harder to limit because the weapons were self-reproducing organisms.
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And the good news / bad news is that there will be even more incredibly toxic stuff to burn up in the future, at least according to those who share the fears voiced by Stephen Hawking, who believes that humankind will extinguish
United States and Soviet Union emerged as bitterly opposed superpowers with the resources to develop huge arsenals of nuclear weapons. From 1947 a Cold War" developed between them and their allies, in the course of which they gave support to
Visitors view the carnage of war through the sheer number and scale of military cemeteries dotting the countryside. For example, in the Somme River valley of northern France, many crossroads are marked with small signs directing the traveler to World War I cemeteries. In Europe, cemeteries provide the principal link to 20th-century wars; subsidiary ties include cultural resources such as memorials, trench lines, pill boxes, and statues.
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Globalized India
An Image of year 2025
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Reference document:
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Will the human race become extinct fairly shortly? Have the dangers been underestimated, and ought we to care? Humans may well spread right through their galaxy. Come what may, some will survive, they will rejuvenate civilized life on earth. It would be hard to kill off absolutely all humans (none will attempt it, we hope), and that from a few thousand survivors new billions would grow.
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The world has reached that point in history where mankinds role can be decisive. This intelligent creature, a product of evolution, has become
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A reference book:
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Why do people engage in the deadly and destructive activity of fighting? Is it rooted in human nature or is it a late cultural invention? Have people always engaged in fighting or did they start to do so only with the advent of agriculture, the state, and civilization? How were these, and later, major developments in human history affected by war and, in turn, how did they affect war? Under what conditions, if at all, can war be eliminated, and is it declining at present? [See next slide for reference book.]
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The attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, were a dramatic indication of the threat posed to the global community by international terrorist groups. Groups within nation-states who feel oppressed on economic, religious or ethnic grounds may turn rebellious and organize terrorist episodes.
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