Democracy & Global Social Issues

Dear Reader, Just as the confluence of many rushing streams forms a single powerful torrent, so many thoughts and experiences of four decades running engineering businesses and as a citizen of the world from humble beginnings have resulted in the ideas within this book. This book aims to provide a platform for others like me. A platform on which real difference will be enacted and a new model for society and governance constructed. I am not a writer or a philosopher, nor am I a preacher or a politician. I am an ordinary man with my own misgivings and strengths, passions and dislikes, history of successes and failures. I am a citizen of this world just as you are. As such, I have witnessed what anyone may have witnessed during their time on this Earth. I have seen tremendous suffering, nearly irreversible damage to our society and environment and the destruction of what could have been; of opportunity, humanity’s chance to thrive and for its people to live well. Addressed within this book; the underlying causes for this downward spiral; evidence of its realization; and some of the solutions required to meet such challenges. The concepts and ideas within are not difficult to contemplate but I urge the reader to be vigilant, to continue with an open mind and to avoid the pitfalls of thinking just as humans have done for centuries. We are blessed with both creativity and logic; let us put our faculties to good use. Let us try to build a better world for all. M. K. Paul Author mkpaul@mkpaul.net;