World Problems

The early twenty-first century carries with it both the promise of the future and the complexities of living in a seemingly unsustainable world with H1N1, terrorism, financial credit crunch and global warming. The devastating terrorist attack in Jakarta last Friday on 17/7 and the bombing in Mumbai on 26/11 last year are sad episodes and they will not be the last. The complicity of terrorism is beyond Jemaah Islamiah, India and Pakistan or Israel and the Palestinians or North Korean leader Kim Jong-il holding sway of the world with its nuclear threat. Whichever way, global instability, death, starvation, reactionary extremism and fundamentalism are just signs to a larger problem.
Terrorism is not a real threat to the lives and livelihoods of billions. Global warming will someday, through mankind’s contrivance and genius, right itself through innovations, sheer grit and determination.
It is about oil money where politics are deeply implicated and religions are mixed into its potency driving people to self destruction. The challenge is how to untangle the unholy trinity of oil, politics and religions and whoever has the key to untangle this will solve a great part of the world’s problem.
This challenge is certainly and infinitely more difficult than a Da Vinci’s Code.