Cooperation

The text here translates as “The next big evolutionary jump will be humankind’s discovery that cooperation is better than competition.”

This is an increasingly important concept as planetary resources become scarcer, and a business-as-usual approach means the slow but certain collapse of our life-supporting ecosystems.  But does it seem even remotely possible?

In the United States, we’re hungrily removing as many features of cooperation as possible.  Any attempt to fashion a government that does anything to help the common American is derided as the socialism of the radical left.

Roughly half of U.S. voters favor “America First” candidates.  They’re proud to elect leaders who support the concept: “Screw the 96% of people who live in the rest of the world.  We want it all.”

That’s a recipe for death.