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You Really Do Have To Wonder Whether A Few Years From Now We’ll Look Back At The First Decade Of The 21st Century — When Food Prices Spiked, Energy Prices Soared, World Population Surged, Tornados Plowed Through Cities, Floods And Droughts Set Records, Populations Were Displaced And Governments Were Threatened By The Confluence Of It All — And Ask Ourselves: What Were We Thinking? How Did We Not Panic When The Evidence Was So Obvious That We’d Crossed Some Growth/climate/natural Resource/population Redlines All At Once?

Two Things Are Going On At The Same Time With The Flattening Of The World: The Relentless Quest For Efficiency Is Squeezing Some Of The Fat Out Of Life.

Watching Both The Health Care And Climate/energy Debates In Congress, It Is Hard Not To Draw The Following Conclusion: There Is Only One Thing Worse Than One-party Autocracy, And That Is One-party Democracy, Which Is What We Have In America Today. One-party Autocracy Certainly Has Its Drawbacks. But When It Is Led By A Reasonably Enlightened Group Of People, As China Is Today, It Can Also Have Great Advantages.

The Country That Owns Green, That Dominates That Industry, Is Going To Have The Most Energy Security, National Security, Economic Security, Competitive Companies, Healthy Population And, Most Of All, Global Respect.

In Globalization 1.0, Which Began Around 1492, The World Went From Size Large To Size Medium. In Globalization 2.0, The Era That Introduced Us To Multinational Companies, It Went From Size Medium To Size Small. And Then Around 2000 Came Globalization 3.0, In Which The World Went From Being Small To Tiny.