Word: mankind
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...readable. And his almost unconscionably brief treatment of such an overwhelming question is actually quite reasonable. The gravity of the human prospect, argues Heilbroner, is based not so much upon the ability to rationally predict the problems of the future, as in an appraisal of the capacity of all mankind to meet up to the challenges of the future; this self-evaluation is necessarily subjective. The Human Prospect introduces the reader to the more predictable challenges and solutions of the future, and leaves the doors leading into the more irrational processes of self-assessment only slightly ajar...
...consequently, a new concern about resources. In 1967 Arvid Pardo, then Malta's Ambassador to the U.N., noted in a rousing speech in the General Assembly that the deep seabeds were littered with minerals, notably commercially valuable manganese nodules. Arguing that the resources were the "common heritage of mankind," he proposed that the profits from mining seabed minerals should be shared among all nations according to need...
...specific for most nations to ratify. Finally, it could end up riddled with vitiating amendments, becoming in effect a collection of multilateral treaties. On the other hand, U.S. Delegate John Norton Moore predicts a worthwhile agreement; most nations understand, he says, "the importance of a treaty to all mankind...
...oceanographers view it, there is something unreal about the debate over who owns what in and under the sea. Says Manik Talwani, director of Columbia University's famed Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory: "Mankind knows more about some aspects of the moon than it does about some of the land right off its coasts...
Hard work-sure. Moments of anger and frustration-certainly. But for the most part, as he has gone about his remarkable rounds he has produced a lot of peace, and injected quite a bit of good sense, all the while casting a wry eye over the singular doings of mankind...