October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
8h 21m
English
The new tasks will require a different form of government.
The new tasks all will require more rather than less government. But they will require a different form of government. The greatest threat is damage to the human habitat. Second only to caring for the environment is the growing need for transnational action and institutions to abort the return of private armies and stamp out terrorism.
Terrorism is all the more threatening as very small groups can effectively hold even large countries to ransom. A nuclear bomb can easily be put into a locker or a postal box in any major city and exploded by remote control; so could a bacterial bomb, containing enough anthrax spores to kill thousands of people ...
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