The 15 Global Challenges from t he Millennium Project, a global participatory think tank. 1. How can sustainable development be achieved for all while addressing global climate change? 2. How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict? 3. How can population growth and resources be brought into balance? 4. How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes? 5. How can decisionmaking be enhanced by integrating improved global foresight during unprecedented accelerating change? 6. How can the global convergence of information and communications technologies work for everyone? 7. How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor? 8. How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune micro-organisms be reduced? 9. How can education make humanity more intelligent, knowledgeable, and wise enough to address its global challenges? 10. How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts,...
Dear King, How r u doing? we've changed or summer time to standard GMT time last Sunday. Now we have 8 hours time difference between us. U r not the unique person who feels lonely. Anyway u can talk your dialect to others, write Chinese to others. Can u imagine the loneliness when u live in a foreign country, all yr neighbour are natives, they always go by u as if u'r transparent, and u can't understand their chatting, the movies, news (ofcourse not all), and when u feel lonely, u can only alleviate it by reading reference books or do excercises in yr room? u might say all those are exactly what i was looking for. I just want to escape from the boring ordinary life like what u described and regarded as happiness. That's not what I want. I may fail at last. I may have to return China with a lot of lost expectation. but I should try, to pursue my heaven. I can't answer yr questions like when marry, when own house and when have a kid. But I'm sure we will get all o...