Reply #70

The 1% is standing in the way of all the technologies that will provide for us in the future, without destroying the earth. They are standing in the way of technology right now that would fix our environmental problems.

And this is the real problem...

"It is not the difficulty of the problem which we have; it is the fact that the rich people of this country—and by rich people I mean the super-rich—will not allow us to solve the problems, or rather the one little problem that is afflicting this country, because in order to cure all of our woes it is necessary to scale down the big fortunes, that we may scatter the wealth to be shared by all of the people. "

They force us to continue on this path because it makes them record profits, when obviously there are better ways.

Instead of paying for wars and Big Government programs like Homeland Security and the TSA. we could provide windmills and solar panels to every American, on every business across America. And where there are no solar panels, we will have gardens on the rooftops, buildings designed with gardens everywhere, community gardens everywhere. We could have a programs of planting trees, Fruit Trees! even, everywhere. Trees eat CO2 and give us Oxygen, there could (should) be a massive movement to plant as many trees as possible to save the earth for our Children.

It's not too late, and there is plenty of room for everyone, if we just changed direction and used our wealth and intelligence for building a better future for all.