You consider this an elephant? I’m sure that out of 300m or so native born citizens a few good candidates for president can be found… that Americans seem incapable of doing so won’t be improved much by allowing non-native born people intro that pool.
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The intelligence of non-human animals and the moral implications of this.
We’re going to easily overshoot a 4C increase in ocean temperature this century and it’s going to be an indescribable fucking nightmare. It’s going to kill most of our children and we’re not going to do a thing about it because change is so goshdarned hard, and anyway, shouldn’t those other guys change before we do?
The most likely best-case scenario for preserving anything like the ecosystem we have now is if we have a nuclear war that kills a fifth of humanity, though optimistically there might be a killer virus that we don’t know about.
Yeah, sure, history is a continuum and blah blah blah…The 90s were when a lot of us here, and a lot of the people still running the various western governments, were actually alive and making decisions. It was also a time where we could have had a real effect. The US was the Lone Superpower, and the entire Eastern Block was looking for help to fix things. We could have done something different. We didn’t. Sure, go ahead and blame Queen Victoria, but we have some blame too, and it’s that part that no one wants to talk about.
That would be the horse loose in the hospital.
Beyond deficits and pension shortfalls, there’s the meta-elephant of a world order that requires perpetual growth on a planet that has limited resources.