As a writer I tend to get put into the category of a hard science fiction writer. However, this doesn't even come close to what I do. Here's why I regard myself as a political futurist and why I think this is an important distinction.

Picture a world of climate change caused by global warming....

We see floods, storms, fires, and acute water and resource shortages. These trigger wars and refugee movements resulting in massive disruption and human misery across our planet.

Precious animal and plant species are disappearing at a tragic rate. The spiral has already started.

In just ten years this world can be our world - unless we take action.

I think most of us are concerned about our global future. It is an area I've chosen to study, but there is a question we all come back to:

How can one person, one group, one company, make a difference, when the area of global futures is so complex, so fraught with problems we see around us in the world already?

The answer to that is in each of us, and the answers we find through our own experiences, our study and thought.

You have to dream it, and when you have done that, the change has already started. If enough of us develop the same vision for the future, the  way forward will start to reveal itself in incremental change and the work of many minds and hands.

My vision is of a major global political change, but no revolution is necessary. The foundations have already been laid with the social structure of the internet, and the time has come to organise it into a global political structure.

This will include global voting and a positive action plan for dealing with climate change, preservation and welfare of humans and other species, the end of war, a fair economy and care of water and food resources.

It is not so much that our governments are refusing to act in an effective way, they simply don't have the capacity to develop a solution. The solution is in our hands.

It can all be done by using an artificial intelligence system that does not challenge democratic states, but provides what we desperately need in the world - a rational future political governance plan.

That is the foundation for all the integrated knowledge and action structures we need to achieve our shared goals.

Not a single change would occur in the world without ideas. I'm sharing mine as I work on my new book as a political futurist. As I finished my last book, Survival Year, I knew people may not be ready for the controversial ideas I have to share. I also realised that I have yet to share my most important ones.

I believe that together we can all do better.

We can share a State of Mind, the title of my new book.

Regards,

Jennifer