Article: Deep Problems In Our Future, AAAS Hears

Looking Ahead

Anyone who spends even the fewest of minutes scanning the headlines or-more often these days-surfing the Web, knows that the first decade of this new millennium is hardly the most joyous of times. Worries global in scope and local in impact converge on practically everything: climate change and disruptive weather patterns, energy shortages, vast coastal urbanization of the poorest countries, widespread economic insecurity, terrorism, hunger, the declining U.S. influence in the world, and most any other topic that comes to mind.

Few solutions that join comprehension with practicality have come forth from the policy experts, financial titans, or the diminished titans of any ...

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