A strong, effective and perhaps dictatorial world government will solve or stem from global warming, if homo sapiens are to survive the oncoming catastrophe.
No guarantee exists that we savage bipeds will live through the droughts, hurricanes, floods, swamping of seashores, death of existing agricultural areas that under the present system of governments we force on ourselves. Someday traveling intelligences from other worlds in the universe may dig up our skeletons in forlorn deserts and speculate scientifically about what we were and why we died off in such hordes and why many skulls show holes other than eye sockets.
Unregulated population growth drives much of global warming: The more of us there are, the more industry and agriculture must result, just to feed and clothe and house and quiet us all.
False ideas–religious, economic and political–drive our inability to try to stop the air and other pollution we now create just to go to the grocery, raise corn, keep our electrical gadgets beeping and blinking.
That some guy in the sky demands we keep spawning more and more of ourselves has such superstitious and political force that right now no national government except the most obnoxious–China’s–limits child births. Try to imagine one of the present herd of U.S. presidential candidates announcing that birth control will stand foremost among the first achievements of her or his new administration.
(For that matter, imagine any of them saying that global warming threatens us and everybody else far more than terrorism--which it does; and that consequently the new administration will bend all our national powers to reverse global warming all over the planet.)
Capitalism–the American holy of holy–amounts to another noxious superstition.
It’s noxious because as a philosophy resting on greed and the struggle for survival, its adherents choke efforts to stop global warming. Plugging smoke stacks costs too much. Such gives competitors an advantage. Besides, as the dominant U.S. economic religion keeps hawking: Ruling and regulating whatever any of us do to make a buck or a Yuan is evil. That belief is going to fry us or drown us all since only unchallengeable governmental power can stop what’s about to kill us.
There also exists the political bane of believing that every linguistic group tempered by geography, every set and subset of humans must have its own national government and each of those governments had equal rights and powers.
Most of the members of the UN are unspeakable hell holes run by tinpots getting rich off of American and other corporations dragging away their riches while dumping garbage on them in return. Getting these countries to do anything to stop pollution requires supplicating the top dogs at Exxon and like filth makers.
China and India have joined us and the Russians and other big countries in streaming carbon dioxide, methane and other poisons into the air.
Who can tell us or the Chinese or anybody else to stop such crime, such suicidal if lucrative stupidities?
Nobody, no agency, because none now exists. Such a world power will come into being because otherwise over time the lot of us will croak. Either we will form it voluntarily or like global warming, it will force itself down our craws–and rightly so.
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