Second Decade: The Agenda
Within hours begins the second decade of the century, when basic profiles will be settled if possible a transition
nonterminal of a civilization dependent on fossil fuels to one focused on renewable energy in the economy, efficiency and global access and fair use.
Although in this era of intercontinental ballistic rocket thermonuclear weapons and the challenge is to achieve this transformation without a third world war (TGM) and without causing a devastating deterioration irreversible climate-biological, historical experience suggests that rationality
required for this has been influenced by what C. Wright Mills called
organized irresponsibility in pursuit of profits by way of financial speculation, expeditious solutions of interventionism, wars and diplomacy of force.
Recall that the leadership of industry electric, gas, oil, coal, automotive and banking / finance have great weight in the domestic and external management of the industrialized nations, led by the United States dependence, consumption and energy waste.
hegemony over the instruments of state by such consortia, although not fully or permanently, impedes the flow to take effective action against environmental degradation accelerated by the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs), while sponsored military means for control of dwindling conventional oil giant fields, sparking a humanitarian disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan, increasing tension and conflict in the world and the Middle East, home of the world's largest oil reserves and, as illustrated Wikileaks documents, chaos brewing right and left to militarize, mercenaries and break international law and relations.
and is conducive to the links between the wars of conquest, action / military occupation and the precipitating of a TGM: oil men do not want war
, said accurate C. Wright Mills in Causes of World War III (Ballantine, 1963), "... but their interests are such that they will play it more than any other industry. There are 'merchants death ', are merchants of oil. But plain and simple 'oil': they are politicians. They are part of the hard-line capitalist risk taking. "
Thus, while welcoming any nuclear arms limitation, continued with Obama wars and occupations of the Bush-Cheney in Iraq and Afghanistan and other nations and regions, including the siege and greed for Iraqi oil, Venezuelan African persists and increases the risk of TGM, even with a new START. This - inter alia - by harassment from U.S. to Russia and Iran with ballistic deployments in the face of the Kremlin that weaken the deterrence and strategic equation: an TGM breaks out the planet will be uninhabitable.
In regard to the irreversibility of climate deterioration and extinction of species underway, the challenges and obstacles are high. Those who emit more GHG chop postpone effective measures for speculative designs weather stripping and business / military of native forests (REDD). Thus, when the threat of global warming irreversible
the imminent disintegration of the ice in Antarctica and Greenland, as noted in the NASA Goddard Institute ( Monthly Review, December 2010).
also detected a sudden acceleration in the extinction of species because the climate change movement is more than offset that species can be made in response
. According to the director of Goddard, the planet's future will be determined in many ways we can do in the years to come. Not a matter for the next generation: by the time young people reach adulthood, the situation may be beyond the control
.