Civility

Identifying potential risks of future social unrest

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If we don't reverse the current trend in food prices, we've only got until August 2013 before social unrest sweeps the planet, claimed two complexity theorists in a leading academic forum.  (It's sometimes said that any society is three square meals from anarchy.)

Identifying the importance of civility in daily life

An esteemed reformer argued that an excess of government regulations and the law has corroded the institutions of authority in our society, with many deleterious effects, and one of the victims is our sense of ethics and civility.

Imagining how to overcome worst case scenarios...

...over the coming decades. There's no self-evident truth in this picture; it's just a scenario and some other scenario planners/futurists paint much rosier pictures.

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