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.

 

 

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One comment on “Folks, This Is Unsustainable
  1. Scott McKie says:

    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.