At least seven immense,
interdependent threats to the quality
of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor
nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution
of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion
of the irreplaceable resources
of our finite planet; the growing threat
of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent
of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals
of the
world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits
of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.
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