ABSTRACT
Unfortunately, complacency can often lead to a failure to face up to the realities which are currently confronting us as a civilization. This is captured well in comments we often here about many of the global challenges we are facing on the planet. ‘This is all exaggerated by pressure groups. ‘The scientists don’t agree anyway’, ‘My way of life seems much the same now as it was. I don’t understand the problem’, ‘We have new technologies and skills which will overcome these problems’, ‘This is going to need us all to change. Why should I be the first to change?’ ‘These issues are politically motivated’. ‘I can’t really make a difference – so why do anything?’
