THE AGE OF WOMEN: WHY THE WORLD NEEDS ONE Closer to home, is the apparent willingness of the Abbott government to trade off a threat to future generations from climate change, which it acknowledges for the sake of near-term fiscal gain, purely a reflection of its ideology or economic philosophy – or also the result of a preponderance of bloke-think? A generation or two ago this issue was less crucial. The population was far smaller, its global impacts much less, and the rewards for risk-taking were larger. Today male-dominated production is playing havoc with the composition of the Earths atmosphere and oceans, with human health, with the survival of other species and entire landscapes. As the population grows to 10 billion or 11 billion and the global economy expands, these impacts will more than double. Would an age of women best sort out our problems?
Posted on: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 22:36:55 +0000
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