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Originally Posted by CeratodusDuck
Given globally how much is spent on arms and “defence” we could have gotten our sorry butts off this dieing world years ago. But nope, we need to “defend” oil interests and other important elements so one nation in particular can racketeer and “own” it all. Do you think the Bolivian coup recently had a anything to do with anything other than the US installing a pro-US government for the protection of Lithium interests? (Let’s recall the failed US coup in Venezuala, all about oil) No, it was yet again the US showing it’s humanitarian side...cough cough.
Plan? We are royally effed so build a bridge and get over it. Switching to EV helps very little unless we go totally solar/wind/hydro/nuclear. Australia’s decision to not go nuclear was a historical nonesense with repercussions now and forever, thanks to the coal-oil lobby that line successive Liberal-Labor government pockets.
Money is all that matters it seems.
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Part A & Part C of your answer I completely agree with, part B, I do not entirely agree...
I'm not particularly keen to just build a bridge & get over it.. we are indeed potentially royally effed but, if we 'build a bridge' we pretty much guarantee that.. so, small as it may be... we could at least have a crack...
Nuclear, is a major sticking point for me & it's not the safety of the plants that is an issue for me... it's the waste byproduct that we just bury... for 10,000 years.. coz, you know, we don't as a species dig up stuff we know nothing about... oh wait, we do that...
Thorium Salt reactors & maybe fusion in the future & I'm listening... my understanding is that Thorium Salt was pretty much killed off as a plan globally because there was no Plutonium byproduct.. therefore no future with Nuclear weapons... so, yep.. there is that arms & defence thing throwing up it's ugly head again...
I'm not naive, pretty much every war in history has been about protecting or securing interests, in the past 100 yrs, a certain large nation seems to have it's hand deeply amongst them but, go back further & there are plenty of other players dictating terms like schoolboy bullies. Likewise, every coup in relatively recent history in otherwise relatively stable countries has been about installing regimes more sympathetic to predominantly the US's interests... So yeah, I get it... but, no-one globally get's up off it's butt to actually try & put a stop to it...
Empires fall.. history is littered with fallen empires.. you are right, it's rinse & repeat on constant playback throughout our history.. but, the alternative.. self annihilation through total inaction...?
Whilst I'm beginning to feel that maybe that's the most deserved outcome for human beings.. right now, it's not something I can just standby & let happen.. will I make a difference... perhaps not.. but, not trying at all will ensure that no difference is made.. maybe I'll reach that point when my head hurts a little more from banging that brick wall...
If there is enough of a groundswell in global population's mindset then maybe, just maybe something will change.. in sufficient time to make a global difference; personally I'm not seeing it yet but, if we all just 'build a bridge' then the mindset has zero chance of changing & yup, we will be Royally Effed indeed...
If that day arrives, I'm not sure even your gold bullion will help..
