Jeffrey Sachs, Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia University, warns us in his January 24th 2013 article entitled “Writing the Future” that humanity faces no greater challenge than to ensure a world of prosperity rather than a world of ruins.
Professor Sachs strikes a prescient note when he states “Like a novel with two possible endings, ours is a story yet to be written in this new century. There is nothing inevitable about the spread – or the collapse – of prosperity.