I do not get the impression that the governance of the world is good or that it is getting better. The gap between rich and poor is widening – between countries and within countries. The world’s environment, mankind’s patrimony, is suffering gradual ruin. The main institutions of the world are organized to enhance and protect the wealth and influence of the powerful. How can we accept that these three world – tendencies are bound to continue, inexorably producing what is a greater and greater sum of misery and deprived dependency on earth? Such passivity before the “inevitability” of this sort of globalisation is one of its depressing effects.