The Vulnerability that is Today's World

Gone is the notion of an ultra secure future. We increasingly realise that to solve problems at home, we must solve problems around the world. The most vulnerable are in big cities that need investment in basic services such as in Bangladesh where clean water would save lives and reduce the risk of spreading disease not only in that part of the world, but around the globe.

We now are beginning to see that we are part of a world wide community made up of many communities, each with it's own peculiar vulnerabilities. In some, it is lack of investment in clean water facilities and sanitation. In others, it is starvation and suffering from heat and drought. For some, it is an unrelention desire for political change resulting from decades of oppression and the lack of consensus because of despotic administration. For many, it is violence from conflicts that never stop as religious intolerance and ignorance from decades of narrow thinking.

We see global changes in the severity of our vulnerabilities, which include weather, financing, governance, proclivity to violence, food shortages, disease and the list goes on and on.