Are We Ready for the Third Millennium?
2001 Series 2 Number 3 Page 1
Dr. Jerzy Wojciechowski (Professor emeritus at U Ottawa) wrote this seven-page article positing that humans are exceedingly complex, as are all of our problems, challenges, and conundrums. Knowledge was beginning to explode, at the time. (That explosion has only accelerated since. Ed.) However, that knowledge was actually leading to increasing uncertainty over our future and we were, for the first time, beginning to question our own long-term viability.
Dr. Wojciechowski devoted quite a bit of thought to the Judeo-Christian mindset that held sway over the world as he saw it. In particular, he was concerned about the whole concept of human “domination” of Earth and its ubiquitous influence, even in science.
He had some interesting remarks about the last four centuries of “advancement,” which led to greater and greater human population size and environmental destruction, to the point where we must now face the realities of the limits to growth.
Perhaps most sagely, he said the economy has become the undisputed focus of society and the main concern of governments and politicians. That economy is based on exploitation of natural resources [and dumping of waste] and greed.
He concluded that the hierarchy of values that served us so well until that point turns out to be insufficient to sustain us into the future. To survive, we’re going to need a different approach. Humanity may become ready for the Third Millenium IF it can embrace solidarity, not just among us, but with other species. That would be quite an evolutionary development…and a blessing in disguise.
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