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THE SOCIO-ENVIRO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM
SADLY DYSFUNCTIONAL
SOCIETY
 ENVIRONMENT
 ECONOMY
GOOD PEOPLE
EVERYWHERE 		NATURE'S
POSSIBILITIES 		AMAZING
PRODUCTIVITY
.
THERE IS GOOD AND BAD
GOOD PEOPLE EVERYWHERE
There are good nice people everywhere on the planet

Arab Women
Arab Men
Indian family

Nigerian Kids
Vietnam factory worker
US Construction Worker
... and some good leaders

Paul Polman
Norm Chomsky
Nelson Mandella

Mike Bloomberg
Martin Luther King JR
John Maynard Keynes
AMAZING TECHNOLOGY
Technological progress has been very rapid and getting faster and faster all the time
MEDICAL SCIENCE

Genetic code / DNA
Antibiotics
3D Printing
MATERIALS

Composite materials
Plastics
High strength steels
ELECTRONICS

IBM
Microsoft
Oracle
COMMUNICATIONS

Apple
Print Media
Digital Media
SOCIAL MEDIA

Google
Facebook
Twitter
PASSENGER TRANSPORT

Passenger Rail 		Passenger Car
Passenger Bus
FREIGHT / LOGISTICS

Shanghai new port
Container Ships
Freight rail
AEROSPACE

Jet engines
Passenger Aircraft
Satellites
.
AND SOME TERRIBLE OUTCOMES
INEQUALITY

Obscene Wealth
Terrible Poverty
Juxtaposed
STARVATION / MALNUTRITION

Africa
North Korea
Somalia
WAR / DESTRUCTION

Aleppo, Syria
Sanaa, Yemen
Mosul, Iraq
... and DEATH ... wanton killing

Monrovia, Liberia
Darfur, Sudan
Rwanda
Urban degradation

Detroit, USA
Modern slums
Not so modern slums
Pollution

Air pollution
Land fill
Plastic
Land Degradation

Mining
Deforestation
Desertification
Extreme Weather Events

Hurricanes
Rain events / Flooding
Ice Melt
.
WHY?
Some very nasty national leaders

Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen
Charles Taylor, Liberia
Bashar al-Assad, Syria

Muammar Gaddafi, Libya
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe
Idi Amin, Uganda
Money making nasty business ...

Viktor Bout, Arms Trafficker
el-Chapo-Guzman, Drug Trafficker
Sex Trafficking
Energy Industry ... Big profits and big pollution

Crude oil in Niger Delta
Flaring gas in USA
Refinery air quality

Coal (Open pit)
Fracking
Oil Spills / BP
Free enterprise oligarchs

Carlos Slim / Grupo Carso
Larry Ellison / Oracle
Bill Gates / Microsoft

Jeff Bezos / Amazon
Elon Musk / Tesla, Space-X
Richard Branson / Virgin
Too much militarism

Atomic Bomb / Mushroom Cloud
Powerful Navy
Air Power
Too little development cooperation

UN headquarters
US State Department
World Bank HQ

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