32473YNHSHDBHOT2 Yet@the dawn of third millennium,

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HUMANITY WAKES UP
TO AN AMAZING REALISATION.
MOST PEOPLE RARELY THINK ABOUT IT,
BUT IN THE LAST FEW DECADES WE HAVE MANAGED
TO REIN ÌN FAMINE, PLAGUE AND WAR. OF COURSE, THESE PROBLEMS
HAVE NOT BEEN COMPLETELY SOLVED, BUT THEY HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMED FROM
INCOMPREHENSIBLE AND UNCONTROLLABLE FORCES OF NATURE INTO MORE MANAGEABLE
CHALLENGES. We don't need to pray to any G d or Saint to rescue us from them. We know quite well
what needs to be done in order to prevent famine, plague and war - and we usually succeed in doing it.
True, there are still notable failures; but when faced with such failures we no longer shrug our shoulders
and say, 'Well, that's the way things work in our imperfect world' or 'God's will be done'. Rather, when famine,
plague or war break out of our control, we feel that somebody must have screwed up, we set up a commission
of inquiry, and promise ourselves that next time we'll do better?! And it actually works.
Such calamities indeed do happen less and less often!? For the first time in history,
more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age
than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers,
terrorists and criminals combined. In the early twenty-first century, the
average human is far more likely to die from bingeing@McDonald's
than from drought, Ebola or an al-
Qaeda/ISIS attack.

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