And the cracks and holes are from deregulation.
What we are looking at here is a lingering erroneous belief that a certain condition has to exist in order for people to be happy. In Salem, they required a purge of witches periodically. That carried on till people got disgusted with the ugliness of burning witches. It is the same today with this security driven government, which really is just a lot of equally erroneous finger pointing for profit. Humans are capable of doing a lot of terrible things to each other and the environment. You might call climate change government action intervention. I think of it as enlightenment if pursued properly. We are in a kind of environmental dark ages and we simply must come to some firm mutual understandings and quit demonizing each other.
Environmental protection and healing is capable of providing sufficient impetus and sufficient employment for all of our people. It is not a communist plot or a plan for utopia. It is instead something that can provide positive benefits to all of society in the form of production that gives continuous positive economic feedback. That is what is lacking in the over-industrialized petroleum powered profit machine that rules today.
We need a paradigm shift, one which aims for environmental improvement and social justice at the same time. War and religion both point toward a fixed sort of utopian view. We are living today in our society ruled by narcissistic oligarchs whose vision and understanding simply cannot accept the reality we face and refuse to yield to the proposition their ways do not improve human life on earth.
