How to reorient international relations towards cooperation instead of conflict
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I think that there are too many people in positions of power who either do not recognize the immediacy of the problem or think that they the will be immune. Of course by the time they are persuaded, if they are persuaded, a great deal more damage will have been done, and much of it perhaps irreversible. For those in power the primary goal is often to stay in power. How much change and in what direction is needed to stay in power is not always clear. There is a strong tendency not to promote change, to maintain the status quo, if one is ensconced. To secure this power propaganda disguised as difference in scientific opinion keeps people doubting that things like climate change are real or man-made, and that only Trump can be trusted to keep us secure, because only Trump is strong enough to stand up to our enemies and not cooperate with our allies.Every living human will be the victim and yet the enthusiasm for the necessary transformation of almost every aspect of society has yet to make any real appearance.
The “Green New Deal” offers some hope but it does not offer clear practicable solutions. I do not know whether the majority will be persuaded or if they will buy into the fear of socialism or if special interests will still be able to hold the cards and if what they see as being in their interest intransigent.
I don’t agree. I think that people have always put their own self-interests first. The problem as I see it is that they do not recognize the true scope of their self-interest and what is necessary to actually protect those interests.It is becoming to be clear that something very fundamental and vital has vanished from the human species.
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All sors of difficulties arise from major fiddling with processes
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The parties play rhetorical games, strategic plans, and have selfish motives.
It isn't global warming IMO that is the real problem, that's a red herring.
This is my opinion,
but there are others of the opinion , that this is a real thing due to humans actions and that the sky is going to cave in unless the US slits its own economic throat while the rapidly deforesting third world, China and so forth , continues their March to catch up.
Consider if you have the Green new deal attitude , and then consider whether you are willing to consider my stance seriously. I think ,You aren't.
And therein lies the sentence of doom.
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In the past couple of centuries the competition of various human societies has evolved to the point where one social formation with its traditions and legalities has captured almost completely all of human society and has solidified to the extent that its power structures have become so resilient that its dynamic complex has pretty much totally lost the ability to respond to massive ecological changes as the results of its technological conquests. It no longer retains sufficient flexibility to face and respond adequately to massive confrontations with ecological changes. If this required flexibility is not very quickly re-acquired, civilization has very little prospect of surviving.
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Persistence of existence cannot be dismissed
When the physical and the fiscal declines do persist.
It’s not funny when the lacks of money leaves one pissed,
But the aching back and bones with age become the gist
Of mounting disappointments to evoke the pessimist.
No doubt the world, now unfurled, in full manifestation
Presents events of dark contents and zero expectation
Where roiling atmospheres, seas in wild contamination
Deserves the screams with evil dreams, wild exclamation
To nail what fails to avail, at minimum, an open explanation.
The insanities of Earth’s humanities to ignore current events
Leaves one in open astonishment at the lack of common sense.
How is it vaguely possible with intellects quite passible yet dense
To square the total horror, reactionless, actionless in intents
To relate and activate with energies and synergies a sensible defense?
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