Two Scenarios For the US, One Doomsday

The doomsday scenario is that the US do nothing new at all. In 1945, with most of the world devastated by war, the US owned within its borders 50 percent of the world’s wealth. After 71 years of policing the world and interfering in states globally, it owns, combining its 50 states and the holdings worldwide of its multinational corporations, 50 percent of the world’s wealth. The Republican leaders in Congress say about global warming that they don’t understand the science. The doomsday scenario is that the US let’s the world go to hell which it keeps hot by continuing to pollute it with fossil fuels. If 20 years from now 12 million people in Bangladesh must migrate and find new lands and new food supplies because of rising sea levels, that’s their business. In the US in 20 years all the Starbucks cafes will still be warm and cozy and the US will still be safely isolated from the rest of the world. Congressmen will still not understand the science of global warming.

   The other scenario is that the US acts now to save itself and humanity’s planet. Brave and intelligent leaders in Washington say, hey, it may be good for humanity and profitable for our multinational corporations to save the world. We have worldwide superior military, financial, political and diplomatic powers. Let’s use them intelligently. Let’s tell every state in the world that we are open to their becoming new American states and we are willing to help them financially and otherwise to make the transition, What good would that do? Well if we had, say, 50 new states located around the globe, our multinational corporations as well as those of others would no longer need to corrupt local leaders and hurt democratic practices to establish themselves in states since they would now have US financial and legal systems. We here in Washington could become a world government not just de facto but de jure. We could use our large and rich bureaucracies to do the enormous but feasible work of implementing real strategies to save the natural resources of our planet from destruction. Congressmen may still not understand the old science proving that global warming exists or the new science necessary to fight and destroy it. But they at least understand that the American Constitution gives them the right in Article lV. Section 3. to admit new states.

Daniel McNeill
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