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Then burn the song on a CD and place in your CD player.• Slide 2 automatically searches for the song from your CD
player.• The slide show is automatically timed advance through each
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Economic Integration
population Resources Technology Communication GovernanceConflict
Global Revolutions
The World is Going Through Revolutionary Changes.
Where are we seeing the greatest change?
1. Population
The world’s population is:
By 2050 it’s projected to be over 9,000,000,0006,971,834,98 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Distributions of ages are changing
USA
• It is estimated that over 20 million children will be orphaned by AIDS.• Most in sub-
Saharan Africa
2. Resources
• The average American individual uses 100 to 176 gallons of water at home each day.
• The average family in Kenya uses about 5 gallons of water each day...when available.
In Fresno it’s 258 gallons
Threats to Biodiversity• Animals and plants are vanishing
where people are living. • “as much as 400 times the "normal",
average, rate of extinction.”– Paul Ralph Ehrlich at Stanford University
Americans drank 31.2 Billion Liters of water last year.
• 17 Million barrels of oil are needed for the plastic bottles.• It takes 3 liters of water to
produce 1 liter of bottled water. • Less than 20% of the bottles
are recycled.
• The amount of corn it takes to make 25 gallons of ethanol could feed 1 person for 1 year. • More corn went for
fuel than food or feed last year.
Today, more than half of Earth's original rainforests have all been destroyed.
Our world’s climate is changingUpsala glacier,
Patagonia,
1928
Upsala glacier,Patagonia,
2004
But people are changing too.
3.Advances in Technology
“90% of products delivered at the end of the year didn’t exist at the beginning.” – Craig R. Barrett, Chairman of the Board of the Intel corporation.
• 8 Petaflops /second 1015
• The entire library of congress downloaded in under 1 second.• Every motion picture ever created
in less than a minute.
Japan’s K Computer
The Future is Getting Smaller
Genetic Engineering• Genes from a spider have been spliced
into goat embryos.• Goats produce web proteins in their milk• These are being used to make ultra-
strong fibers.• Bullet-proof clothing.
That’s just weird!
4.Flow of Information
Where are we getting our information today?
Illiteracy rates in the developing world are dropping.
5. Economic Integration
The Richest 1% of the world receives as much income as the poorest 57%
Micro-lending• Since it opened in 1976,
Grameen Bank has loaned over $6 Billion miro-loans to the poor in Bangladesh.
• 97% to women• 98.6% repay the loans• 64% were raised out of
poverty. Muhammad Yunus
6.Conflict & Security
There are between 70 and 80 million landmines in the ground in one-third of the world's nations.
Amnesty International estimates that there are currently around 250,000 children under the age of 18 that are actively involved in global conflicts.
How are we fighting our wars?
7.Governance
Non Governmental Organization (NGO) have become increasing
influential in Global Affairs.
The BRIC Countries are Poised to Show the Greatest Change
Brazil
RussiaIndiaChina
People are demanding changes in their government
Governments are demanding changes from other governments
So…we need to think about our future.
Will it be one of promise Or one of peril