We need some sort of relationship like that between Washington and Beijing today, I think. And I do not mean in any way that we should rule the world together. What I mean is the challenges that we're going to confront in the 21st century, challenges that could be existential, challenges like climate change, challenges like enough water to drink, enough food to eat, and so forth--I've seen some projections that say--by climatologists whose views I respect, that say by the end of this century we could have only arable land and water enough for some half billion people. What we do with the other 9 billion? Where do we bury them, even? How do we deal with that kind of massive change in human relationships with this planet? So these are huge challenges. So what I'm saying is you need this kind of great-power relationship, this great-state relationship to begin to lead the way for others to follow, others who are already doing a good job of it, like Germany, for example, to meet these challenges which are much bigger than whether or not Taiwan is a part of China or whether or not Ukraine is a part of Russia. These are tactical skirmishes on the fringes of challenges that may have major impact on human life on this planet. And yet we don't seem to be able to get the leadership to move to face and confront these challenges.
http://youtu.be/P6TUcOsAwd0
or here (with transcript):
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11844
Did you catch that? Only enough food and water for 500 million people ... and the other 9 billion may die.
Who will decide who gets to live, and who gets to die?
By the way, Wilkerson's suggestion that we must work together with China (the dragon) to address these problems is interesting:
And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Revelation 13:4 KJV
Is China the dragon of this verse? Is the United States the beast? It looks that way to me.
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