We have a remarkable chance to change our unsustainable “waste is growth” economy and hazardous inequality to sustainable systems that optimize well-being rather than collapse.
The possibility that the United States might fragment is no longer a marginalized topic. Maps showing various post-U.S. local setups accompany essays exploring how and why a split of the U.S. would be an option to local and ideological polarization, for instance, Max Borders’ current short article, Dear America: It’s Time to Break Up.
But 2 forces bigger than political polarization may piece nation-states across the globe, consisting of the U.S.: inequality and shortage. Inequality and corruption go hand in hand, obviously, as the wealthiest couple of impact the state to safeguard their monopolies and backstop their speculative gains.
Inequality also goes hand in hand with the collapse of nation-states, as this influential paper discusses: Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies.
The parasitic elite can collect the majority of income, wealth, political power and resources in periods of expanding abundance, as what’s left is enough to support a broadening populace that takes in more per capita every year, i.e. broad-based success.
Once abundance shifts to deficiency, the economy and society can no longer sustain the dead weight of its outsized parasitic elite. The parasitic elite thinks its puffed up share of resources, wealth and power is not just sustainable but can be broadened without consequence, and so it deploys all its formidable power to keep the status quo the same even as deficiency reduces the living requirements of the bottom 90% and hollows out the economy.
In effect, the modern-day central state, regardless of ideological label, optimizes inequality and development. Once development fails while inequality continues increasing, the only possible result is fragmentation and/or collapse.
Put another method: the status quo is no longer the option to inequality and shortage, it is the issue. Private-sector and political elites are incapable of acknowledging they are now the issue, and so the fast unraveling of the status quo will come as an excellent shock to their magical-thinking confidence in their power.
The elite’s delusional “service” is a seamless, painless shift to a brand-new period of abundance by means of “green energy.” Sadly, this vision is 100% magical thinking, as all these projections overlook the physical truths of constructing out an international energy system that produces energy on the very same scale as existing hydrocarbon energy sources. Check out these three reports for reality-based assessments:
The “New Energy Economy”: A Workout in Magical Believing (manhattan-institute. org)
The Delusion of Infinite Economic Development: Even “sustainable” technologies such as electric lorries and wind turbines face unbreachable physical limits and specific grave environmental expenses. (scientificamerican.com)
Evaluation of the Extra Capacity Required of Alternative Energy Electrical Power Systems to Entirely Replace Fossil Fuels (PDF, Simon P. Michaux, Geological Survey of Finland) Check out the 3-page abstract.
As discussed in the very first paper, inequality produces collapse and so does a decrease in resources, i.e. deficiency. Put the two together and the only possible outcome is collapse of all centralized nation-states that enhance inequality and limitless growth of usage.
The problem isn’t ideological labels or concepts, it’s whether the state resolves problems or covers them up with phony repairs that speed up collapse.
Nations which want to not just survive but emerge stronger have one course: a revolutionary transformation from “waste is development” to degrowth, from an economy and state controlled by a parasitic elite to a strictly minimal parasitic elite and from abject reliance on delicate supply chains coming from other countries to decentralized, localized self-reliance for essentials.
I’ve written a book that is a template for this improvement. This book is the culmination of a lifetime of study, observation, experience and analysis: Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the United States.
Though I devote some analysis specifically to the U.S., the book is a design template for any country to not just endure deficiency however emerge stronger by progressing a degrowth economy and a decentralized political order.
We have an extraordinary opportunity to transform our unsustainable “waste is development” economy and hazardous inequality to sustainable systems that optimize well-being instead of collapse.
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