Are we beyond saving?

Do you think the corporations that knew full well the effects of agent orange sprayed on Vietnamese civilians we were supposedly fighting to liberate have any hesitation at all about spraying our edible crops with pesticides? They're the same corporations. They're still thriving. Maybe their new corporate policy is based upon responsibility rather than profit. Yeah and Obama loves white country boys.

But maybe like oil the use of harmful pollutants in our industrial society is necessary to provide food and electricity and products we consider necessary for a basic level of life to a burgeoning world population now exceeding 7 billion. In other words maybe a trade off is necessary. Apparently there are benefits to a modern industrialized society because life expectancy continues to rise.

The United States leads the world in regulating pollutants of all types. We have led the world since WW2 in a lot of categories. Our economy, military, medical care, food production, and quality of life for the middle class has been number one. But the world is rapidly approaching a global crisis of Biblical proportions because of pollution from industrialization. Plastic, oil, carbon, sewage, chemicals from pesticides and fertilizer, radiation, heavy metals and poisons from mining and manufacturing saturate the air the earth and the seas and lakes and rivers.

Many earth scientists believe we have passed the point of no return and that a massive extinction event which includes human beings is inevitable because of the loss of symbiotic bio diversity systems. You've read about this. The disappearance of bees and mollusks and plankton are examples. So as a sovereign nation what should be our domestic and foreign policy regarding this approaching crisis.

There are really only two options. We can lead The world by example and diplomatic influence while protecting our own interests or we can submit our nation to the control of global forces who think they have the answers. The second option excites the global forces because they can then bleed the tremendous resources of America to fund pet projects they couldn't afford on their own. The elephant in the room is the knowledge we all have that the best way to save the world, the surefire fix, is to drastically reduce the population of the world. Don't you just know down deep that there are powerful people on earth considering just that.