It is time to change the paradigm before Earth changes it forever. The reason there is truncation of the future to the underpinnings of government are crony industries that believe they must last forever. THEY DON'T. Every economy has it's day and then it is time to move on. The current generations have to let go of the financial performance of the past and realize the future is going to be very, very different.
The future is more local, self-sufficient with global interactions for artists. The quality of life is dependent upon a change in values that will embrace more abstract thought such as the arts. Rather than every car in the driveway, let's think about a precious original work of art in every unit of every floor of a high rise in the city.
Focusing people to the city, with Japan as an example, will bring the need for cars to near obsolescence. Mass transit is necessary to go from city to city. I don't see the suburbs surviving the change. Rather than using every inch of American land for real estate development, there needs to be a consolidation of people and their activities to cities where transportation is as near as the next subway stop. The USA needs to build high speed rail with innovative ideas such as magnetic and pneumatic rail.
For those that see the world differently, I assure them their thinking is obsolete. Earth covered in concrete is one huge heat island where life no longer exists.
I must remind at this point one of the reasons for conservation in the first place. The Endangered Species Act was an understanding that if the minor species started to fail, it would lead to those along the food chain to fail. It is true and the first place to witness it are the oceans where major fisheries are failing due to over harvest and heating waters. The most common place for fish to live, breed and flourish often begins in the coral reefs and today it is prudent to ask, "How are the coral reefs doing? Are there many left?"
Start making an economy that is focused on the sins of the past and the promises of the future and MITIGATE the damage so far and RESTORE natural areas IN ABUNDANCE.
Currently, burnt forests are the legacy to children. That has to be completely reversed with more land dedicated to forests and more effort to end forest fragments and a demand for the return of the "Core Forest."
NOW!
The promise to generations to come is a strong apology for the destruction of Earth and reinvigorate land while targeting a ZERO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION.
By Sam Meredith
Burnt trees are seen in Mallacoota on January 15, 2020 , Australia. The Princes Highway between Mallacoota and Orbost remains closed to public due to the risk of falling trees following the devastating bushfires that have swept through East Gippsland in recent weeks.
Over half of the world’s GDP (gross domestic product) (click here) is exposed to risks from nature loss, according to a new report.
It comes following a 12-month period which reportedly saw the hottest year on record for the world’s oceans, the second-hottest year for global average temperatures and wildfires from the U.S., to the Amazon, to Australia.
The report, which was produced by WEF in collaboration with PwC U.K., found that $44 trillion of economic value generation — more than half of the world’s GDP — is “moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services and is therefore exposed to nature loss.”
Policymakers and business leaders from around the world are due to arrive in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Monday.
The annual January get-together is scheduled to focus on the intensifying climate crisis....
