Summer immersive discussion series | July- August, 2012.

In this age of instant communication and biotechnology, on this ever smaller planet, what kinds of problem have we created for ourselves? How do we tackle them in a world where the accustomed methods used by nation-states may be reaching their natural limits?

In High Noon, J.F.Rischard challenges us to take a new approach to the twenty most important and urgent global problems of the twenty-first century. Rischard finds their common thread: we don't have an effective way of dealing with the problems that our increasingly crowded, interconnected world creates. Our difficulties belong to the future, but our means of solving them belong to the past.

Rischard proposes new vehicles for global problem-solving that are startling and persuasive. With its clear-eyed urgency and refreshing specificity, High Noon is an agenda-settling book that everyone who cares about the future must read.

 

 

 

Global Warming

Global Infectious diseases

Deforestation

Fosheries depletion

Biodiversity and ecosystem losses

Maritime safty and pollution 

Water deficits

International labor and migration rules

Natural disaster prevention and mitigation

Massive step-up in the fight against poverty

Demographic

Explosion

Unprecedented

Stresses

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

Technological

Revolution

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Economic

Revolution

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Education for all

Digital divide

Peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combatting terrorism

Trade, investment and competition rules

Illegal drugs

 

 

 

 

New World

Economy

Unprecedented

Stresses

 

Unprecedented 

Opportunities

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Intellectual Property Rights

E-commerce rules

Global financial architecture

Reinventing Taxation for the twenty first century

Biotechnology rules

 

Faster, leaner production processes

Alliances galore, & more supploes over long distances

Reshaping established business from the ground up

New product and service ideas