Global Trinity

Sometimes when you watch the news, it's hard to grasp what's really important. The media is so easily distracted by the new shiny penny. Health care reform? That's interesting...ooooh, look!...Miss California said something crazy! The Cheney office may have advocated torture? Wow, that's significant...no, look, Nancy Pelosi said something that maybe, just maybe, might be inconsistent!
For my initial political blog, I would like to establish what I believe are the three most important problems/threats facing the planet today. sometimes the media skirts around these topics, but then, oops - there's that shiny penny!
First, Global Warming. You can debate the degree and the level of mankind's involvement, but it is indisputably happening. It bears watching, and I think we're naive to the max if we don't think we play a role in it's acceleration. Included in this would be the growing shortages in basic resources, the most ominous of which are water shortages.
Second, Global Economic Crisis. Yes, there's been a lot of financial mischief making by the US financial industry, and complicit is a lax and corrupted government. And, yes, Globalization is a conveniently destructive boogieman. But what disturbs me most is the growing worldwide inequity between rich and poor. This has to be reversed. A world structure based on exploitation can no longer be tolerated.
Finally, Global Violence. I don't even want to call this terrorism, because that is a political word for a problem that I think is broader than that. As the world becomes destabilized, the possibility of someone using "weapons of mass destruction" becomes a more real certainty. We have to get a handle on the world's increasing nuclearization. This will require all the tools in the world's arsenal to combat it - diplomacy, humanitarian efforts, addressing the first two global problems, and yes, at times, may require the use of military force.

That is the broad outline as I see it. Please feel free to extend, clarify, comment and debate. I welcome the discussion!