How much longer are we going to keep doing this?
by David Atkins
Most people haven’t seen this color footage of World War I. It’s amazing.
World War I is often forgotten and overlooked. Outside of an assassinated Archduke, unraveling treaties and an eagerness to test new weapons, most people couldn’t tell you why it was even fought.
Yet it cost an astonishing 37 million people their lives. And for what?
At some point the people of the world are going to have to figure out that we’re all in this thing together.
The global jet setting rich won’t be content until they own everything and there’s no middle class left anywhere. Many multinational corporations are now more powerful than most governments. The climate is warming out of control with no coherent plan to stop it. Nuclear weapons are proliferating such that it’s only a matter of time before someone uses them again. We have resource shortages of all kind, from oil to water to minor but necessary metals. We are overfishing the seas and committing a genocide of extinction to the world’s biodiversity. Developed nations have crises of aging populations and social insurance shortfalls, while developing nations have overpopulation problems. Fundamentalism of various kinds threatens global stability.
War isn’t the answer. It will never be the answer. But then, neither is libertarianism. It, too, is the enemy of a stable future.
The global labor force is going to have to hang together to survive what’s coming, or it will surely hang separately.
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