How then, do we move backwards? How does a society, with most of the people having no clue of future events, move from being dependent on a vast and intertwined network of goods and services produced by the indigenous people of whereever, to a local resource and renewable energy based society, and do so in the timeframe available (20-30 years using the most liberal extimates, 10-20 with resonable estimates, 5-10 with worst case scenarios), all the while prices on everything increasing, world politics getting more militaristic, governments continuously reducing civil liberties, shortages of goods on the market and weather patterns resembling bad Hollywood movies?
Slavery still exists alright. Most of us are our government's.......er.......I mean.......Corporate America's female dog.
Slavery still exists, period. A friend of mine is a journalist who labored in secret for months on what she thought was going to be a huge story - the fact that chocolate is produced by slavery. The cacao plantations in Africa not only get the work done via slavery, but the slaves are usually young children, kidnaped from their families and sold to a life of hard labor and abuse - for about $30 each. But after the story appeared on the front page of her major newspaper...nothing. There was a barely a ripple of response. No protests, no boycotts of chocolate, no pressuring Nestle to contribute to Save the Children. Yup, we'll choose the tableware, every time.
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Some would argue that the European Union has made most of the countries of Europe very indecisive and/or powerless.
Maybe so, but it works for them. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it's because they are smaller, more homogeneous countries than we are. Perhaps it's because they have a more socialist outlook; they are committed to society in a way we aren't. In any case, that commitment to society, to future generations, will serve them well when the crash comes. They're already taxing gasoline at far higher rates than we possibly could, and making a push away from oil and toward renewables that we didn't manage, even right after the '70s oil crisis. They're doing it, we're not. And honestly, I can't see us ever doing it. I hope I'm wrong.
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