Many politicians use the buzz words sustainable
and renewable to
expropriate the environmental vote unto themselves. Oil and gas are
sustainable and renewable; Saturn and Uranus are full of hydrocarbons
that could be clumped and delivered by space-drone tugs and flung
down-to-Earth someday like meteor goobers flaming through the sky to
SUV filling stations. The reason for sustainable and renewable as
desirable ideas is largely lacking from political understanding. That
in brief is the need to keep life on Earth viable with a full,
healthy ecosphere ins as if it were a disposable, edible creme puff.
The ecosphere is under attack by
humanity in a way comparable to the way bacteria in a petri dish
attack and consume their growth medium. Basically the drive to
consume is non-rational and insatiable. Such non-thinking guides the
corporate world and is not improved by either capitalist or communist
political philosophy.
Globalism today is largely the
bacterial cultural over-consuming everywhere it can. Nations are
firewalls that in theory might be the organizational basis; the only
strong organizational basis remaining, wherein resistance to the
destruction of the ecosphere or takeover by robots and A.I. might be
developed. Human organizations without the land standard equivalent
of the monetary gold standard are floating social relativistic and
inherently corruptible. Nations with the land standard of political
civil of individuals in democracy at least have some basis in
reality.
Some such as Stephen Hawking
believe in error that one government for the entire world is the only
way to stop A.I. takeover and conserve the ecosphere too perhaps. One
government would just require one takeover by A.I. hackers to take
down the human race. It would amount to a dictatorship at any rate.
Restoring the ecosphere to health
requires ecological economics within a directed, regulated,
incentivized free enterprise economic welfare state. That is a tough
idea to sell of course yet maybe the only way short of dictatorship
that life on Earth may be able to survive in the long-run. Remember
that just because a politician uses the words sustainable or
renewable that it does not mean they understand that keeping the
ecosphere intact (all the plants and animals) and non-extinct, is the
reason.