Dangers Ahead

Dangers Ahead

By Dr Arvind Kumar

Many dangers are in store for us in coming years and unfortunately only a few people are willing to examine the future in a comprehensive way. However, we are going to experience a wide range of increasing threats if we ignore them. Global societies are called upon to start tackling them simultaneously for posterity. One reason there is little demand to effectively deal with those threats is that many people perceive that societies are incapable of solving problems of such magnitude. They also feel personally powerless to do much about it. This is far from the real situation we have now. Recent decades have been charaterized by deteriorating conditions as far as fairness is concerned, but people are tough and can withstand adverse situations. The people are succumbing to their own onslaughts.

The present society is replete with a wide range of conflicting interest, which society resolve by compromise or more precisely by sacrificing most of the world’s people to satisfy the dominant wealthy people. The dominant ones are highly focused and determent on increasing their wealth and power in a very competitive setting. They have had no reason to become aware or concerns about any other mater than what's going to affect their self-interest, which at present, is amassing wealth and power. Capitalism has seemingly replaced faith in god to intervene, to technological solutions for all major problems, raging from conflicts to energy, food, and water. There is a need to break free from that faith and check what technology is doing to the world in a competitive system.