Personal Statement - John Stephen Veitch

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John S Veitch
The Network Ambassador

I've kept a personal journal for 36 years. Slowly I've gathered about me lots of information that directly contradicts much of my education.
My future and your own future can be more open. But the way forward isn't easy. More of the same leads to certain destruction.
We can't rely on our elites to do anything progressive or helpful on their own. They will act, when there is absolutely no other choice.
The Club of Rome identified the problem 40 years ago. We have many problems to solve and they are all interrelated.
When I was a young man I really believed that there was huge promise in the last half of the 20th Century, but it proved to be a killing field.
There has also been enormous econmic growth but the promise is stillborn. Instead we have global warming, the end of cheap oil, and genocide in Africa.
The world wide meltdown of financial markets, in October 2008, wasn't a surprise.
There's no point in building more coal fired power stations and trying to maximize "economic growth" if the inevitable result is ecological collapse.
We can't be a global community without proper global governance. If we are to survive, I believe that World Government is essential.
The culture I'm a part of believes in hard work and in giving people rewards for hard work.
We MUST maintain a society that has integrity, where there is genuine membership for all. Income disparities destroy that integrity.
The intention here is just to indicate the massive scale of the changes we need to make.
The discussion in online forums is largely pointing the way I'm trying to travel. NOT of course in the mainstream media.
In the end there will be enough well informed people to make necessary change happen. Peter Senge "The Necessary Revolution", 2008.
Hope lies in your ability to deschool yourself, so you can become part of the solution rather than an extension of the problem.

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