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  %RECOGNIZING IDENTIFYING CLARIFYING ACKNOWLEDGING 080108
  %DESCRIBE DISTINGUISH RESPOND GLOBAL DILEMMAS NOW 080108
 %TECHNICAL PROBLEMS ISSUES ENGINEERING TECHNOCRATS 080108
%POLLUTION DISEASES WARMING RISING OCEANS PURE GOOD 080108
%WATER AIR SOIL FARMING CROPS FOSSIL FUELS MINERALS 080108
  %DRINK PURE FREE AVAILABLE TERRITORIES BOUNDARIES 080108

 1.  REAL-DILEMMAS  involve serious  conflicts-among  many
different  people's:  ideals,  values,  goals, principles,
ultimate-concerns, religious-doctrines, etc.

     ( An example of a REAL-DILEMMA is the  tensions among
     citizens  in  an area between  two  expanding  cities
     where BOTH cities  want to  annex  the  same PRIVATE-
     PROPERTY  into their own city ---  against the wishes
     of the private owners of the PRIVATE-PROPERTY. )

 2.  A Purely TECHNICAL-PROBLEM can be resolved happily by
TECHNOCRATS  to  the satisfaction of all persons  involved
and  likely to be  affected by the efforts to resolve  the
TECHNICAL-PROBLEM.

     ( An example of a PURELY-TECHNICAL-PROBLEM would be a
     case where  everybody involved has agreed  that  they
     want a small bridge of a particular size, style,  and
     appearance --- across a small stream near the edge of
     their town at a particular place in a particular road
     ---  for  a  particular price  --- to  be  built by a
     particular  willing  competent  contractor  during  a
     particular period of time.   The Contractor will have
     the purely technical problem of just how to start.)

The    Whole-Crew-of-God's-Space-Ship-Earth   faces    the
following Communal-Dilemmas which cannot, and will not, be
resolved by competing-individuals motivated by  greed  ---
free  of  communal  constraints.    The  framework  of   a
capitalistic   free-market-economy  is  not  an   adequate
framework for assuring the satisfactory resolution of  the
following troubling  Global-Communal-Dilemmas ---  in The-
Absence  of Global-Communal-Constraints due to  agreements
about    Many-Clusters   of   Mutually-Supportive-Balanced
VIRTUES ---   that  respond  graciously  to the threats of
conflicts   due   ---   to   clusters   of  Contentiously-
Demonstrated VICES.

     Our  GLOBAL-COMMUNAL-DILEMMAS   include:

 1.  Global Air-and-Water Pollutions and Related-Diseases.
 2.  Global-Warming & Shifting-Agricultural-Opportunities.
 3.  Rising-Global-Ocean-Waters into lowlands near Oceans.
 4.  Increasingly Violent-Destructive-Ocean-Storms.
 5.  Exhaustions of All-Supplies of Pure-Fossil-Fuels.
 6.  Exhaustions of ALL-Supplies of Pure-Drinkable-Water.
 7.  Exhaustions of ALL-Supplies of Pure-Scarce-Minerals.
 8.  Exhaustions of the Patience of Poor-Vulnerable-People
 9.  Conflicts over Good-Expressions of Humane-Sexuality.
10.  Conflicts over Concentrations of Wealth-and-Powers.
11.  Conflicts over Myths about Redemptive-Violence, etc.
12.  Conflicts over Achieving-Invulnerability for US.
13...Conflicts over Who-is-Good  and  Who-is-Evil.
14.  Conflicts over how to enjoy True-Security-With-All.
15.  Conflicts over how to ALL-Enjoy the Graces-of-Shalom.
16.  Conflicts about consequences of Growing-Populations.
17.  Conflicts over growing per-capita consumption levels.
18.  Conflicts over Finite Desirable-Land-Areas to use.
19.  Conflicts over Traditionally-Sacred-Territories.
20.  Conflicts over what Is/Is-Not Truly-Possible for US.

     Be Together in the Many-Gracious ways of Shalom.

                         (c) 2008 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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