A global realisation on a personal, as well as governmental level, that we share the planet, and a common humanity, is the only way to overcome the various forces that threaten humanity's very existence. Be those forces war, pestilence, climate change, if humanity's consciousnes does not does not become aligned then the planet is fucked. Yes,looking at the way the world is at the moment, human evolution is a long way from that reality. The animal kingdom has shown in so many cases that survival chances are greatly improved by cooperation. The European project, for all its many faults is, in my opinion an example of survival enhancing cooperation. The many irritating rules it has brought into our lives are outweighed by the principles underlying its inception, and its many significant achievements to date. Hopefully there will continue a global realisation that we have to depend on each other to survive, and that the beardy guy in the sky is probably not looking in, and even if he is, his performance to date is abysmal.