We suspect but do not know that consumption will increase.

The coming months will reveal whether we are, indeed, witnessing the dawn of the post Oslo era in Palestinian politics, and whether a new leader, with new supporters, will be required to revive the Palestinian cause.

Herein lies our great challenge the one that will determine whether we follow the path of prosperity or ruin.

We use one map if we are driving from home to work, another one if we are traveling to another city. Yet other kinds of maps are needed if we are on a bike, on foot, or planning to take public transport.

We will soon find out whether we have learned the lessons of this crisis any better than we should have learned the same lessons from previous crises.

The thing is, if we don't know whether we are doing any good, we are not any better than the Medieval doctors and their leeches.

But if we believe that debt driven demand is different, demand stimulus will at best be a palliative.

Previous experience Some of our perceptions are clearly influenced by our previous experience and impact on whether or not we enjoy listening to something, or whether we are even willing to listen.

And what we can do with our biology is going to shape our future and that of our children and that of their children whether we gain control over aging, whether we learn to protect ourselves from Alzheimer's, and heart disease, and cancer.

Whether these improvements in corporate governance are actually implemented will be clear to all.

The next two or three months will determine whether peace breaks out, and, if it does, whether it will endure.

The question for the European elite is whether we believe in the work of the past 20 years, whether we believe in an integrated European market and an ever widening European Community.

Foreign policy is another story.

Our fate now depends on whether we cooperate or fall victim to self defeating greed.

if we want to reduce the number of poor people we have to know what makes them poor in the first place.

Activist Abdulelah Almahoozi made a comparison between two acts, asking if we aren't witnessing the same phenomenon in essence Isn't the act of demolishing mosques, as the police and military forces have done, the same act that ISIS is performing?

If only we could feed hungry people with missiles and bullets!

We knew our heroes would win.

Since that was a golden era for global growth, why worry if we are seeing the same phenomenon today?

Later this year, donors will decide whether to renew this facility.

I should now like to say one word about whether or not we are talking about situations beyond the context of conflict no.

Even if we are still stopped, we sympathize with those getting ahead, imagining that we, too, will soon be moving forward.

Time alone will tell whether the financiers who invest in and run this program make a fortune.

Or more to the point, how do you know if a program will ever stop?

And you know, of course, what'll happen if you do a pre frontal lobotomy.

We think it vital that in the work of the CTC we consider not only whether we are meeting our responsibilities to process reports but whether we are in fact meeting our greater responsibility to help States tackle terrorism nationally and internationally.

One day, these people will ask us, What were you doing when we used to struggle with hunger? Do we have an answer? I have doubts.

We're redesigning the Global Voices website and would like your help figuring out if we're headed in the right direction.

The question is whether change will be forced upon us by a crisis or result from careful, democratic deliberation and debate.

But it remains to be seen if the lessons have been fully internalized, and whether we will have a kinder, gentler IMF in lieu of a rigid, doctrinaire one.

It is, after all, fair to question whether donor countries will stick to these commitments and, indeed, whether conditions in partner countries will permit them to.

But if one takes a closer look at China, this argument disintegrates.

Palestinians will need help if things are to turn out right in Gaza.

The only question is whether the process will be peaceful.

It is not yet clear whether words will be matched with deeds.

If you push the stranger off, he will be killed, but you will save the other five.

Or, to put it differently, whether they choose modernization or marginalization.

Hundreds suffered from the symptoms of the disease, not knowing if they too would die.

The world needs to start acting soon very soon if it is to head off the major threats.

But if renewables were cheaper, they wouldn t need subsidies, and we wouldn t need climate policies.

The developing countries are now following us and accelerating their pace. And actually, their cumulative emissions this year are the equivalent to where we were in 1965. And they're catching up very dramatically. The total concentrations by 2025, they will be essentially where we were in 1985.

It remains to be seen whether the outcome will be decided on the basis of unemployment or state debt.

And I wondered whether I'd get to the end of this talk and finally have figured it all out, or not.

Both have much to lose if the Middle East erupts into fresh violence.

The West s options will continue to narrow if it maintains its present course.