Common Wealth / Jeffrey D. Sachs

The global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, Jeffrey Sachs argues, one that will overturn many of our basic assumptions. The very idea of competing nation states scrambling for power, resources and markets will soon be outdated. The world has become much too crowded and dangerous for more ‘Great Games’ in the Middle East or anywhere else. The defining challenge of the twenty-first century is now to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate: we will flourish – or perish – together. We will have to learn that there must be common ground between rich and poor, among competing ethnic groups, and between society and nature.