Folks, This Is Unsustainable
A sustainable society is one that meets its own needs without preventing future generations from meeting theirs.
So, what can happen to make a society unsustainable? We normally think of environmental issues like pollution, climate change, over-fishing, etc.
Yet consider a country that has successfully made its way from a democracy to an oligarchy, and contemplate some of what that means:
• Harsh justice and gross unfairness for the masses, and no accountability for the 1%
• Vast levels of undereducation
• Lack of competitiveness in international markets
• Broadspread apathy towards voting
• Healthcare that is increasingly unaffordable, creating an ever-enlarging diseased population with lowering life expectations
It wasn’t too long ago that the United States was respected and envied by the world. Now we have a political party based almost purely on lies, ignorance and hate.
To Mr. Reich,
You are oh-so correct, and I’ll add — that if the rest of who’s left doesn’t get off their stupid cell-phones, take a look around; and get ready to basically “…kick some booty and not take names…” — what you have written and I have answered won’t matter.
What I fear as a 78 year old, now partially diabled US Navy Vet from the Vietnam era –is that the present generations are so self-absorbed in their “selfies” — that they’ll be run over by the MAGA / Evangelical types and wonder — “wah happend”.
What a loss, and they’ll just wander off somewhere.
They just don’t care.