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The Next Millenium (r)

(written by iearn@iearn.org, 03/22/1996)

/* Written  5:53 AM  Nov  9, 1995 by coldspring in igc:iearn.tc */
To: peg:sthildas
From: coldspring@igc.apc.org
Subject: next millenium

Dear Prue,

I agree with you in that people who see the next
millenium as a starting point for their lives are being quite
ignorant about the fact that their problems will still
remain.  A date with ?/?/2000 is not going to change any of
the world's problems or change anyone's personal problems,
but rather just means we are further on in time with the same
problems still at our side. Time alone changes nothing!
As I see it, the opening of the next millenium should be
marked as a convenient starting point to work from in a
technological sense, to promote actively the kind of changes
needed.  If you review all that has happened in just past
century, it is hard to imagine what will come over a
millenium where the rate at which the world is modernizing is
increasing exponentially.  To survive through the next
century, we must strengthen our U.N. and other forms of
international cooperation or else we won't have to worry
about all our other problems since we'll probably destroy
ourselves. With the potential to blow up our planet 100 times
over with the nuclear weapons of today, and more destructive
discoveries surely to come, global cooperation must be
improved if we are to avert the destruction of our planet.
From an environmental standpoint, the world is facing
trouble because with new technology and modernization comes
pollution and environmental threats of other types.  The
world must cooperate not only to establish peace but to stop
the degradation of our environment and to give mother nature
time to replenish herself.
If these goals can be met, then the next millenium looks
brighter than the world right now.

Talk to you later.
Matt Baskir (Grade 11)