Posted: Apr 13, 2008, 9:11 AM CST
kurzita wrote:Yes, it' all about gettin the numbers on the screens to go up, up, and higher.
Somewhere along the line it seems that we have forgotten the meaning of the word sustainibility.
The entire global industry of armaments, not just that of the US, is so huge, that it is a financial necessity for wars to continue.If you spend billions in the development of a specific weapon, then you must be assured of a market for it.
There is a similar situation in combatting illicit drug production worldwide. There is so much money flying about in things like DEA and other such agencies, that industries supplying materials and support reuqire 'the enemy' to remain. If efforts to wipe out illegal drug production succeeds, a load of people in the west would go bankrupt wouldn't they? They NEED the drug production to be there for them to make money out of fighting it.
Without providing a doom day scenario, but yes, ultimately I believe we will soon reach a point for a new world order to evolve. It must, if we are to save this planet we live on from being sucked dry of it's life support capibilities.
The world will survive long after we're gone. It just may not be in the form we'd wish.