A preview of the unpublished book A CIVILIZATION WITHOUT A VISION WILL PERISH: AN INDEPENDENT SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH by David Willis LESSONS LEARNED BY THE AUTHOR (Part 6) SOME OTHER THINGS I HAVE LEARNED The long-term well-being of the planet and future generations My primary interest is in the long-term, in the well-being of …
A preview of the unpublished book A CIVILIZATION WITHOUT A VISION WILL PERISH: AN INDEPENDENT SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH by David Willis LESSONS LEARNED BY THE AUTHOR (Part 5) Greed Enron was one of the largest bankruptcies in the history of the United States. The International Herald Tribune of July 6, 2006 had an article …
A preview of the unpublished book A CIVILIZATION WITHOUT A VISION WILL PERISH: AN INDEPENDENT SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH by David Willis LESSONS LEARNED BY THE AUTHOR (Part 4) Poor agriculture has led to the demise of civilizations My final job was with the American Farm School in Thessaloniki where I learned that the lack …
A preview of the unpublished book A CIVILIZATION WITHOUT A VISION WILL PERISH: AN INDEPENDENT SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH by David Willis LESSONS LEARNED BY THE AUTHOR (Part 3) A London fog It was probably in 1952 that I accompanied my father to London and driving back we were caught in a London fog. I …
A preview of the unpublished book A CIVILIZATION WITHOUT A VISION WILL PERISH: AN INDEPENDENT SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH by David Willis LESSONS LEARNED BY THE AUTHOR (Part 2) World peace has become one of my most cherished visions World War II, occurring as it did while I was very young, was my first life-transforming …
A preview of the unpublished book A CIVILIZATION WITHOUT A VISION WILL PERISH: AN INDEPENDENT SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH by David Willis LESSONS LEARNED BY THE AUTHOR (Part 1) Looking back on one’s life One’s 75th birthday is a good time to look back on one’s life, to reflect on the deeper meaning of life-transforming …
A preview of the unpublished book A CIVILIZATION WITHOUT A VISION WILL PERISH: AN INDEPENDENT SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH by David Willis OVERVIEW The failures of Europe’s political and intellectual elites created the disaster Martin Wolf in his article Failing elites threaten our future in the Financial Times of January 15, 2014 opens with these …
A preview of the unpublished book A CIVILIZATION WITHOUT A VISION WILL PERISH: AN INDEPENDENT SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH by David Willis Dedicated to Green Acre Bahá’í School and to Rabi Musah whose presentation of One Common Faith sowed the seeds for this book In 1912 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá spent 239 days in America. On 17 August, …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 17: SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS The reused syringe and the blood and plasma systems Probably the most efficient amplifier was the reused syringe. The Yambuku 1976 Ebola epidemic was grossly amplified by the mission …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 17: SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS $178 billion a year from the world’s poorest nations to the richest Former CDC director Dr. William Foege felt that new disease emergence was tightly linked to Thirdworldization: the …
