Today’s World

The G-20 Vision is Obsolete

by Ervin Laszlo July 8, 2010

Where there is no vision, the people perish Proverbs 29:18 One can’t solve a problem with the same level of consciousness at which the problem arose Albert Einstein The final statements of the June 2010 Canada meetings of the G-8 and the G-20 make for impressive reading (G-8 Muskoka Declaration – Recovery and New Beginnings, [...]

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The Dis-ease of the Western Mind

by Ervin Laszlo May 3, 2010

When someone asked Gandhi what he thought of Western civilization, he replied he thought it was a good idea. It is indeed a good idea because it’s not entirely a reality. Western civilization—more exactly, the Western mind that creates the civilization—has a serious disease. It’s a “dis-ease” that affects all of us of in the [...]

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Design? Yes. Evolution? Yes. Contradiction? No. Then Why the Controversy?

by Ervin Laszlo April 14, 2010

The debate among conservative Christians, Muslims, and Jews (the “creationists”) and natural scientists and the science-minded public (the “evolutionists”) centers on biological evolution. But on a deeper look, it concerns the universe in which life has evolved—or in which it was created. And, as I will argue, on this level there is no contradiction between [...]

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Quantum Consciousness — our evolution, our salvation

by Ervin Laszlo April 3, 2010

In the first post of this series I promised to explore the wider implications of our having a quantum computer in our head. What does this revolutionary understanding of the capacities of the human brain mean for our life and our future? Here I call “quantum consciousness” the consciousness we access when we use the [...]

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Global Emergency — why we don’t face it

by Ervin Laszlo February 25, 2010

The unsustainable condition of the human and the humanly impaired natural world constitutes a global emergency, and it calls for global-level cooperation to avert a global-level breakdown. Global-level cooperation is a new requirement in the history of humanity, and it’s not surprising that we are not prepared for it. Our institutions and organizations were designed [...]

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Global Emergency — ecological unsustainability

by Ervin Laszlo February 23, 2010

Emergency is an unstable and ultimately unsustainable condition in a system that calls for effective action to avert breakdown. A global emergency means that the human and natural systems of the planet have become unstable and unsustainable, and that globally coordinate action is required if the global system is not to crash. Global emergency involves both [...]

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Global Emergency — economic and social instability

by Ervin Laszlo February 21, 2010

An emergency is a specific condition in a system, whether that system is an organism, a community, an ecology, or all communities and ecologies taken together. This condition signifies that the system is unstable and is not sustainable as it is; it either changes or breaks down. Societies exhibit economic and social instabilities, and nature [...]

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Labrador over the Mediterranean — a not-so-subtle reminder of our changing climate

by Ervin Laszlo February 19, 2010

The rain came down in sheets. The sky was ice-grey, with darker clouds chasing each other across the horizon. An occasional break allowed the sun to come through now and again, lighting the scene with an eerie, unnaturally brilliant light. The sea was angry, with large, uneven waves topped by white-caps. The ship was lurching [...]

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War or life — your choice

by Ervin Laszlo February 11, 2010

Peace is said to be the absence of war: when we don’t have war, we have peace.  Entirely wrong.  When we don’t have war, we could still be far from having peace—we could be full of conflict, frustration, aggression, and repressed or overt violence. We just don’t have the organized kind of violence that states [...]

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The cardinal sins of our time — and the cardinal virtue

by Ervin Laszlo February 9, 2010

These are times of change. We don’t know yet when or how our world will change, but we do know that it will change, for it cannot remain as it is. If the range of possible changes embraces on the one hand a breakthrough to a more peaceful, equitable and sustainable world, and on the [...]

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