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December 16th 2011

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2012 will be an important historic juncture when the shape of the global frameworks that will help humanity through the 21st century start to become clear. It is a year when the world will begin to come to terms with a new political, economic and technological order that requires new approaches to problem solving, new models for the conduct of human affairs, and new ways of relating to each other and the world in which we live. If we are to thrive as a global community of almost 10 billion – the projected population by 2050 – these new models are not optional, they are an absolute necessity. Human ingenuity got us into this mess, and it will get us out.

(via The World Economic Forum Blog: 2012: A Critical Juncture for Global Governance)

What this tells me is that World Economic Forum just have started to take this issue of global transformation seriously. But it is evidence that they are just fumbling to grasp the nature of the challenge… One thing they don’t seem to recognize is that they themselves, the existence of their institutions which most of them sits in and the resulting top down perspective is a key part of the problem.

Posted at 8:25am and tagged with: population, politics, disruption,.

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