Global trends and new challenges (comments on the article of professor N.P. Gribin)

The article represents a set of comments on professor’s N. Gribin article about analytical survey «Global trends: The paradoxes of progress» prepared by the US Intelligence Community. The author makes his comments and some considerations from the viewpoint of a problem-oriented and interdisciplinary approach, highlighting some acute trends and issues of globalization, which remains on the periphery of interests of the US authors of the above survey.