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planet 50 years. 50 years to the DEATH of the planet--at present levels of consumption/pollution. And they're a corporatist organization.
However, Mother Nature is VERY forgiving, and we are among her cleverest sentient creatures. If we just give her a chance--just STOP a couple of really bad things--She will turn the planet green and beautiful and life-enhancing once again.
1. Stop cutting down forests. (And start planting them.) (Not just for the air--also biological diversity, and clean water. Use alternative building materials, or recycled wood. And don't buy this crap about "green" forestry--which the WWF peddles. There is no such thing. STOP cutting down forests. Period. Fini! Make it a hanging offense!)
2. Stop pouring fossil fuels into the atmosphere. (FREE ENERGY FROM THE SUN. Lots of it. Enough for all our needs and then some. Just TAP INTO IT. Convert all machines to alternative, non-polluting fuels, or solar power.)
3. Stop letting global corporate predators write our laws and dictate our treaties.
Get tough with our own global corporate predators, and with China (the other big polluter). ALL industry and trade can be EASILY converted to non-polluting, green enterprise, but powerful global corporate predators are NOT going to do it willingly. Too much of it is run by overly powerful, radical profiteers. As Teddy Roosevelt said, "Speak softly but carry a BIG STICK." That "big stick" is government REGULATION and other DIRECT intervention in the marketplace. It HAS to be done. But it's going to take a number of strategies--which are all ultimately based on, a) the sovereignty of the people, and b) TRANSPARENT elections (the mechanism by which that sovereignty is exercised). We need wonder no longer WHY the Corporate Rulers have now grabbed DIRECT control of our election system with electronic voting machines, run on TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code. This is why. These corporate monopolies badly need to be busted up, so that REAL market forces--a truly free COMPETITIVE market--can take over. People WANT TO buy "green"--if they only had the choice. They WANT TO save the planet. SUV sales may not indicate that, but I think that is just bad leadership. If we didn't have an Oil Cartel in the White House, SUVs would never have been permitted, and the beguiling advertising to buy them would not have happened. It was a corporate profiteering thing. It was not a true marketplace! In a true marketplace, we would have had alternative fuel, non-polluting vehicles and other transportation twenty years ago. "Markets" are also markets for ideas. The IDEAS of "green" products were artificially suppressed. And this is where government intervention can put things right. Strong government is needed to counter the power of these immense corporations that dictate narrow choices, based solely on the monetary profit of the few, and that actively SUPPRESS vital information that can influence consumers. The situation is very out of balance. We, the People, through our government, need to intervene--and we have been prevented from doing so, by manipulated elections.
4. Stop increasing the human population, or...get off the planet.
Create biospheres in space. Terraform Mars. Colonize Titan. We really have no other choices, short of some big breakthrough in technology (I don't know...living in parallel universes? ...matter/energy converters for recycling EVERYTHING we use?). Myself? --I think it's time we started "greening" the solar system. (I don't like curtailing human freedom.) There may also be other technological solutions, but we'd better get on them fast. It's not just a matter of feeding people. It's a matter of living space--vastly increased human encroachment on all green places--and intense polluting and invasive industrial life. If we were all Buddhist monks, with a robe and a bowl as our only needs, we could significantly delay the planetary crisis. It's our consumer culture COMBINED with ever-increasing (exponentially!) population that is the problem. But we're not going to stop being traders and consumers any time soon. And even if we stopped all pollution tomorrow, we'd still be in trouble: human population vs livable space/& resources like water. We have also put severe stresses on the ocean fisheries, and if that food source dies off--as it is showing signs of--we may solve the population problem by watching half the human race die of starvation. Don't want that. Think positively. Everyone should be free to have children. And every human being is precious. Energize our brain power, our ingenuity, our vision. And figure this out.
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