Name: 【TED】Simon Anholt: Which country does the most good for the world? (Which country does the most good for the world? | Simon Anholt)
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I've been thinking a lot about the world recently

and how it's changed over the last 20, 30, 40 years.

if a chicken caught a cold and sneezed and died

it would have been a tragedy for the chicken

but I don't think there was much possibility

Twenty or 30 years ago, if a bank in North America

and our words and our pictures and our ideas

and our teaching and our learning around the planet

but it's also brought a lot of good stuff.

of the extraordinary successes of the Millennium Development Goals,

several of which have achieved their targets

That proves that this species of humanity

is capable of achieving extraordinary progress

if it really acts together and it really tries hard.

But if I had to put it in a nutshell these days,

If you look at the downside of globalization,

it really does seem to be sometimes overwhelming.

All of the grand challenges that we face today,

and demographics and terrorism and pandemics

we're not making an awful lot of progress

against an awful lot of those challenges.

That's clearly what we've got to do next.

We've somehow got to get our act together

and we've got to figure out how to globalize

which is the victim of the globalization of problems.

Why are we so slow at achieving these advances?

Well, there are, of course, a number of reasons,

is because we're still organized as a species

There's one superpower left on the planet

the seven billion of us who cause all these problems,

But how are those seven billion organized?

They're still organized in 200 or so nation-states,

but the problem is that the way that those laws are made

is absolutely wrong for the solution of global problems,

and the politicians we don't elect, on the whole,

as if they believed that every country was an island

that existed quite happily, independently

This week, as any week you care to look at,

you'll find people actually trying to kill each other from country to country,

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