The American Dream turns into a Global Nightmare By Paul Farrell, MarketWatch
American Dream worked when 300,000,000 People Tried it = Capitalism Exploiting others!
NOW 7,000,000,000 are all trying for Capitalism DREAM. = Now a Global Nightmare?
32 times more resources consumed by Americans over people in the Third World.”
7,000,000,000 AFTER CAPITALIST DREAM = A GLOBAL NIGHTMARE = 32 TIMES MORE CONSUMPTION
7,000,000,000 All using resources at the rate Americans do = A ticking time bomb
7,000,000,000 = A lethal virus spreading worldwide, could destroy the entire world
7,000,000,000 and Growing = The #1 Problem if not solved soon = ENDS IT ALL as resources are depleted and everyone after the last BIT = GOLBAL WARS
7,000,000,000 Following the Dream = All other problems in the world are irrelevant
Pentagon warns of Global wars defining human life by 2020.
Bill McKibben’s “End of Nature” prediction could ignite soon.
98% of Scientists + 2,000 UN scientists warn humans are killing Earth.
Pope says inequality is the root of all social problems.
Big Oil? Capitalism? Many progressives see capitalism destroying democracy.
Robert Gordon says we can’t stop GDP falling to 1%.
7,000,000,000 Following the CAPITALISM Dream = All these problems are irrelevant
Yes, all THESE PROBLEMS ARE IMPORTANT!
7,000,000,000 Following the CAPITALISM Dream = Biggest risk = The domino effect
5 years ago Bill Gates and his Billionaires Club asked “What is OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM?” = Biggest ticking time bomb that will take down global economies? = Ending Capitalism? Potentially destroying modern civilization as we know it.
ANSWER: Overpopulation said the billionaires = Too many people on Planet Earth.
THE 7 BILLION PROBLEM = Global clock winds down to zero.
UN predicts that by 2050 global population will explode 40% from 7+ billion to 10 billion.
Scientific American = Repeatedly warns population is “the most overlooked and essential strategy for achieving long-term balance with the environment.”
POLITICIANS = The “third-rail” for them = Leaders just ignore it.
The American Dream mutates into Global Nightmare = Goes viral Globally = Capitalism
American Dream = Exported to CHINA and Asia + South America + Now Africa = Capitalism Spreads = Accelerating global GDP growth = Infecting every nation and individual with the promise of the “perpetual prosperity” inherent in the American Dream.
Global Dream = MASS CAPITALISM = MASS EXPLOITATION = MASS PRODUCING OF BILLIONAIRES = From 322 in 2000 to 425 in USA + 358 in China + 29 in Africa
85 Billionaires make $3.5+ Billion
11 Trillionaire families by 2100 = Credit Suisse predicts
3 BILLIONAIRE DELUSIONS OF DESTRUCTION:
# 1 Believe the same capitalism that made them superrich will continue indefinitely = FOREVER GROWTH on a planet of depleting nonreplaceable natural resources.
# 2 New technologies will replace disappearing resources to fuel perpetual growth and TRICKLE DOWN to the poorest 50% = Economist Robert Gordon refutes assumption
# 3 Mutant Capitalists do not need to share the future = No need for 1776 Equality of, by, and for the people. Drop that part of the American Dream.
BILLIONAIRES = No value in 1776 American Dream of Equality and Democracy
BILLIONAIRES = No need for HOPE for the MASSES and equal opportunities.
BILLIONAIRES = Jack Bogle warns are spreading Mutant Capitalism = A virus
BILLIONAIRE VIRUS = Infecting superrich = Widening inequality gap + Stifled Opportunities for most Americans and people worldwide
BILLIONAIRE VIRUS = Hoarding the power, wealth and opportunities for TOP O.O1%
“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied…but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which as beggar is a reminder of nothing.”
― John Berger
“One of the disturbing facts of history is that so many civilizations collapse….There are ‘optimists’ who argue that the world could support double its human population….(they) consider only the increase in human numbers and not average increase in per-capita impact. But I have not heard anyone who seriously argues that the world could support 12 times it’s current impact…(as) all Third World inhabitants adopting First World standards.”
— Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.” Civilizations FALL QUICKLY 20 YEARS AFTER THEIR PEAK
“Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire,” Niall Ferguson, HARVARD = The world will be caught by surprise, unprepared with accelerating collapse.
7,000,000,000+ Following the CAPITALISM Dream = Everyone wants prosperity, success, opportunity. More is never enough! = GLOBAL DREAM of forever Growth on a finite planet with dwindling natural resources = RACE FOR WHAT IS LEFT!
The self-destructive Billionaire Global Dream will continue until a catastrophic black swan shocks us awake.
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