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Its remorseless expansion is contributing to climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and human-rights violations – all to satisfy Western societies’ unhealthy appetite for cheap meat.
The late Elinor Ostrom, a Nobel laureate in economics, showed that human societies have built myriad creative and lasting solutions to resolve a wide range of dilemmas involving the use of common resources.
First, postcommunist societies, and not just governments, must become engaged in the accession process.
But truly open societies demand active civic institutions and private sectors independent of government; so societies, even more than states, must become qualified.
Only by building democratic, open societies in which borders and governments diminish in importance can the circle of violence be broken.
This tsunami of technological innovation will continue to change profoundly how we live and work, and how our societies operate.
And as these technologies continue to be developed and widely adopted, they will bring about radical shifts in all disciplines, industries, and economies, and in the way that individuals, companies, and societies produce, distribute, consume, and dispose of goods and services.
Individuals, companies, and societies do have time to adjust; but there is no time for delay.
As a result, populism in these societies is not on the rise, and mainstream politicians do not vilify minorities and migrants.
Parents in affluent societies already provide environmental advantages to their children after birth; reprogenetics could allow them to pursue the same objectives before birth.
If democratic societies allow people to spend money to buy environmental advantages for children, how can they prohibit parents from buying genetic advantages?
All modern democratic societies must balance individual autonomy and social justice.
Many societies survive periods of systemic corruption without a social explosion; to do so they need a growing economy to mute public grievances.
Most democratic societies have attempted to address the problem through left-leaning redistributive policies or right-leaning supply-side approaches.
But societies do not flourish on economic growth alone.
These parties are not confined to Scandinavia and the Low Countries, but are part of a global wave of anger against political elites, who are blamed for all of the insecurities that come with global economics, the financial crisis, and living in more ethnically mixed societies.
Finally, the argument must be made more forcefully that it will be much harder to protect our societies against the revolutionary terrorism of radical Islam without the active support of all law-abiding Muslims.
Ultimately, more equal societies have better health outcomes.
But what is often overlooked is the “software” of disaster-risk management – our societies’ level of preparedness, including early-warning systems, education, and effective communication with the most vulnerable populations.
Indeed, it is a matter of global urgency that all societies, rich and poor, understand how disaster-risk management operates across the full spectrum of potential threats.
If murders could be eliminated, societies around the world would be better off in ways that can be valued at 1.7% of GDP.
This is a transformation on the scale of the shift, more than 8,000 years ago, from nomadic hunter-gatherer societies to settled agricultural ones, which eventually led to the rise of cities.
More broadly, societies everywhere should be driven by a common goal that transcends their diverse backgrounds.
Unlike EU members admitted during earlier rounds of enlargement, the Central Europeans suffer from widespread corruption, political nepotism, fragile political parties with unclear identities, and weak civil societies.
If it is to succeed in making the world a better place, globalization can not be predicated upon market forces alone, but needs to reinforce the stability and integration of diverse societies.
It is hard enough to collect taxes, so how can societies possibly go back to a world where the tax office has to run after the taxpayer?
And women contribute to their societies by investing their earnings in health, education, and family.
Survey research has revealed that societies vary greatly in their levels of trust.
They are embedded in societies in the form of culture.
Yet they also point to exceptional windows in time when it is possible for societies to shift away from their established paths.
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