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The world today encounters four extreme challenges: • The transformation from Western Civilization to Global Civilization • The development of Virtual Civilization • A new great crisis, especially seen in the Western and the Eastern Civilizations • The possible Clash of Civilizations

The most populous five countries of the world are China, India, United States, Indonesia and Brazil.

Food Crisis - Such a crisis stems from four main causes: • The production of biofuels takes over land for growing corn and sugar cane. • The increasing consumption of meat in the developed countries, as well as in China and India, requires an increased output of feed (seven or eight kilos of high-quality feed is needed per each kilo of meat) such as corn and soybeans. • Deregulating foreign food trade (towards the end of the 20th century) meant the destabilization of production, reserves, and the consumption of food in most countries. • The monopolization of food production is practiced by American companies, with four corporations dominating most farming business and bringing local farmers to bankruptcies; small farms produce healthy and tasty produce whereas those giants offer unhealthy and tasteless food.

The term Clash of Civilizations has been coined by Samuel Huntington. He argued that • without the common threat of communism, civilizations now tend to perceive each other as enemies, and • increased communication and interaction between civilizations has actually exaggerated perceived differences.

In the early decades of the current century, the tenets of this doctrine have become clear. They are based on the following rules: - Rule 1:The elimination of governmental regulations is necessarily beneficial since that encourages freedom of speech. - Rule 2: Intellectual property is an old concept which should be eliminated. - Rule 3: Most of the extant face-to-face meetings, particularly international conferences, should be replaced by virtual conferences to lower costs and broaden participation. - Rule 4: Printed books, journals, gazettes, and magazines should be replaced by e-publications to increase readership and decrease costs. - Rule 5: Face-to-face communication is too personal.

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The founders of Global Civilization belong to the single global society; it is composed of an international elite group of the richest and most powerful people in the world. Among them are politicians, central bankers, chief executives of global corporations and those who gather at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, traditionally held near the end of January.

The Global Mind is guided by the principle “think globally, act locally.”

The term “virtual culture” means the electronization of the emerging information culture in computer network storage sites (in what is today called “the cloud” - rented cyberspace) which has been rapidly developing in the 21st century. In the last 500 years, information culture was developed by such media as print, telegraph, telephone, telecommunications, recorded sound (records and CDs), movies, radio, television, and so forth. In the last 50 years new media such as computers (software) and the Internet electronized and virtualized information culture.