Saving the Planet for Profit

THE COMBINED  military budgets of all nations is something around two trillion american dollars, annually. the united states alone spends something over half a tril, and the next ten top spenders spend roughly the same as the U.S. The rest of the world spends a mere pittance, by comparison.

so the world total might still be under two trillion - for now. But what will it be in the future? What SHOULD it be in the future? it should probably be very little, we all might idealistically agree, but most certainly won't, we agree realistically.

every nation wants to have at least enough military strength to discourage other countries from attacking, is what it boils down to. Fear, justifiable fear. the nations of the world simply do not trust each other.

something needs to to be done create trust and cooperation, in order to reduce violence and military spending. military spending truly needs to be reduced, because it is bankrupting the united states, in fact already has, and the money could be used for far greater, more urgent purposes, like saving hte human species by saving the biosphere of this planet.

doesn't that sound sensible, everyone? we could probably, for instance, plant billions of new trees all over the world for a tiny fraction of the military budget, trees which will replace carbon with oxygen in the atmosphere, simply by photosynthesizing.  Viva la photo synthesis!

the corporate industries which manufacture the weapons don't want to beat swords into plowshares any more than the big fuel (oil) companies want to transition to solar energy. what we need is a way for the wealthy few to profit by saving the environment, saving the planet, and they will suddenly come out strongly in favor of it.

We need a way for our corporate masters to profit from repairing the damaged environment.

true conservatives would argue that if we keep building and buying weapons while simultaneously cleaning up the environment and reversing global warming for profit, it will expand the economy all that much more, for everyone. Who knows, perhaps they are right...

Bb

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