Clifford Thomas, June 2019. May I point out that I am in declining health with a disease that has and continues to result in declining cognitive function, but in spite of this I have a story to tell that is built on my life experiences over the past 77 years and it is the conclusions I drew from them that I trust you will find helpful in creating a better society. This relates particularly to the UK, but may well be applicable to all. The avoidable inevitable. When trying to make sense of our place in the world, how it affects us and how we have affected it, then we cannot but realize that we are in trouble in so many ways and if we are going to get out of this, even if we start now, then it will be by the skin of our teeth. So the best way to assess our situation is to start at the very beginning and that is at the birth of the Universe some 13 billion years ago. Obviously we cannot say for sure how it began and even if it was the beginning, or just the par...