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Global Threats and Ideologies

I don't know one single country anywhere that is really doing a good job of nurturing their national resources to be more productive in the future, and the best we can point to are isolated islands in the Pacific that seem to have been left alone by colonialism because they were too little, too far, or were too fierce, to be worth controlling. And even there we see layers of wishful thinking or propaganda when people say they have lived in harmony with nature forever, but the fossil record clearly shows that they drove their most valuable natural resources to extinction just as fast as their technology allowed.

Now that our really big threats are global ones, no locally based strategy will be sufficient of itself unless they are globally coordinated. That is why it is key to take the decision making powers away from those who are incapable (from the very nature of their mandates) of thinking globally even if they were informed and understood, and establish the UN as an effective mechanism for global environmental governance. Unfortunately this is something that is feared by the politicians of all nation states, because it means giving up power, even if it was acquired illegitimately and they have proven themselves incapable of wielding it responsibly. The UN Charter begins with "We, the people's of the world", but somehow the governments think they are the people's only representatives...........

Tom Goreau