There are many groups and companies working on good, sustainable products, including the energy sector, but they do not gain any traction against the prevailing vested interests. It’s like a story I read years ago in a science fiction magazine. A man invented an everlasting razor blade and Gillette et al, bought it from him for a few millions and then buried it. I wonder how often something similar to that has happened?
Democracy is supposed to be one man, one vote. (Apologies to women). But what happens when you vote? You give your permission to someone to do something for you or for the good of the country while in office. The numbers of people means that the person voted in should do something for you, or your opposing neighbour’s view, or should vote with his conscience. It should never be about how much money somebody gives to his favourite charity or worse, directly into his company or his friends’ company. The Peers for cash scandal in Britain undoubtedly has its counterpart in America and other European countries, and yet we hold up as scandalous the corruption in developing African and Asian countries. Conclusion? Corruption is everywhere, even in the World Bank, which is supposed to be helping countries make progress for the benefit of their people.
My conclusion is that there is no solution. The problems of the world are too great for any one think tank, government, lobby group, group of companies or scientists to solve. Maybe the answer might be a one-world-government of the new world order, because nothing I can see on the horizon seems even remotely adequate.
My Sufi teacher years ago in the 70’s predicted that there would groans and strains in the ‘dinosaur’ institutions - the big international corporations, and we should not worry about them. We cannot in any case do anything about them, but like the dinosaurs, they will collapse and die out under their own weight. I am still waiting for his prediction to come true; he predicted the 90’s would be the start of the creaks and groans. When and if the great world wide global down turn leading to recession comes, what preparations have you done to help you and your family to survive? Can any office/factory/McDonalds/bus driver or worker grow his own vegetables? Does he know how? Do you? And where is your land to do it? Think about it, maybe it’s your only option. Maybe it’s time for a new age society, with barter and exchange and no money, like many tried in the 60’s. Where are they now when you need them?
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