FACING AN UNCERTAIN AND DIFFICULT WORLD - Preparing for the Great Waves of Change: It is evident that you are entering into a time of great instability and uncertainty in the world, a time where the\xa0Great Waves of change are beginning to strike the world: resource depletion, environmental degradation, violent weather, growing economic and political instability and the risk of war and conflict over the world\u2019s remaining resources. It is a time that will represent the results of humanity\u2019s misuse and overuse of the world. It is a time where there will be so many currents and cross currents that it will be impossible to predict exactly how things will turn out.