Our Future at Stake

Abstract

This proposed chapter begins with an overview of rhetoric commonly used ranging from certainty, uncertainty, objectivity, subjectivity, sustainability, climate change, complexity, order, chaos, human security, food insecurity, are among the notions often ambiguously or inadequately deployed even if the intent is to identify appropriate paths toward a better world. It is contended that a more adequate orientation to analysis of global events should incorporate a cross-cultural perspective that goes beyond a Euro-centered approach, and which is more inclusive of the rest of the world and is holistic in its approach. Issues considered include sustainability, security, sovereignty, education, climate, artificial intelligence and so on.