If you are one of the billion or so people at the top of the global economic then how good is this? We get a good meal whenever we want it. We have housing that prevents us from being exposed to the elements. We rarely experience violence in our day-to-day lives and if we do we get a response that pretty much reduces the threat to a manageable level. We generally get basic health care needs met, with even poor-quality care light-years ahead of what the average person received a few generations ago.
This quality of life is no longer just for those in Western countries, as it largely was a few decades ago. Today, millions of people in China, India, South America and other developing countries live this relatively luxurious life.
We, the lucky billion, spend most of our lives seeking ever greater and subtler refinements in what we perceive to be our quality of life: nicer clothes, better music, more comfortable furniture, more interesting holidays, more convenient technology, more unusual variations of food, a more secure retirement. It doesn't get much better than this.
Our grandparents would see us living like kings with every convenience dealt with, every basic human need met, and our arguments on what needs to improve going to ever-greater refinements to all of this. They would hear us complain about interest rates, not being able to afford a larger house or a renovation, and having a degree of uncertainty that we will be able to live this lifestyle when we stopped working. As near as one or two generations ago, no one stopped working unless they were dead, let alone spent their latter years in physical comfort with decent health care.
Left behind are many more billions, many of whom live in grinding, soul-destroying poverty. While we strive for larger televisions, DVD screens in our cars, and the perfectly grilled tender steak, they die for a glass of clean water or a bowl of rice.
Our needs are met. We have the capacity not just to make our lives comfortable, but to explore space, to develop extraordinary scientific knowledge, to cure diseases, to invent amazing technologies that will help us and future generations live even better lives. We can connect to one another instantaneously and globally to share our hopes, our dreams and what we have for breakfast.
The path we are on is completely unsustainable. We have too many people, not enough clean water; we cannot grow enough food nor build the required shelter. On top of that we have environmental issues that exacerbate the lack of those necessities and the prevent the continuance of those necessities.
We can be against the United Nations Agenda 21 but what alternative does the world have than to cooperate. Those that have will either lose everything or they will give up some, maybe up to half of what they have.
When resources are limited freedom leads to destruction.
I hope the Tea-Party has practical workable alternatives. When they cannot work with Republicans or Democrats getting China, the United States, Somalia, Argentina, and Cambodia to work together will not be easy if possible at all. The Tea-Party appears to think they know what needs to be done but they have no clue as to how to go about it.
We need alternatives to UN Agenda 21 but what are they?
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