Why try to do the impossible?

• Belief is a choice – we choose to believe it is possible to eliminate war

                          anyone who believes it’s impossible will never try

• The number of people killed in wars has grown three-fold each century since 1700

                          continuing the way we are means over 500 million killed this century

• Global cost of war in 2014 (a moderate year) – $14,300,000,000,000

                          5 times (in real terms) the average annual cost of World War 2

                          and that’s before ...

• Climate Change effects kick in

                         will everyone share inadequate resources, or fight over them?

• Exponential Automation kicks in – artificial intelligence, 5G networks, quantum computing

                        your current job is? ... and your next job will be?

          The solution of the wealthy – go to Mars, or at least buy a property in New Zealand

           We could go on, but you get the idea ...

                       at best we have about 20 years, after that it will be too late