EMERGING GLOBAL PROBLEMS DATABASE
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Read these articles not to strike fear in your heart or the hearts of others but rather to realize the great responsibity we each have to awaken to who we are and what our role truly is upon this earth. It is amazing that since the following quote made in 1949, things have not only changed but there continued direction has unleashed upon us the largest emerging man made global problems history has ever known.

"Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of the smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organised political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights." (Albert Einstein, 1949)