And of course in your face proof that civilization is now almost irreversibly doomed is the appearance of the Demented Orange Barbarian, or Beelzebub the Tangerine Anti-Christ that now haunts the White House and systematically toxifying the collective American psyche.

He is also turbo-charging all of the negative elements featured in the 100 or so summary statements I referred to in my previous posting.

Global Civilisation is an oxymoron.

Sorry, but I see a lot of wishful thinking in this latter-day Luddite article? Who I suspect based on his preferred remedies is, like Adolf, a tree-hugging vegan? As always in such advocation, if you're no part of any rational solution, you're invariably part of the problem?

That said, civilisations come and go particularly those who get too big too draconian, too conservative, too autocratic, too authoritarian!

As someone, who was raised on hardship, knows starvation, homelessness and the horrors of abusive foster care/orphanages, can't agree with the remedies sort by this green autocrat!?

We don't have to be part of his doom and gloom scenario, but rather an inclusive, egalitarian Island of sanity and unprecedented prosperity in a world gone mad!

We need to become far more self-sufficient and able to close our borders to all comers! Even as we open the up to trade and electronically assisted commerce.

Need to embrace cooperative capitalism as a survival mechanism that allows our economy to grow without destroying cohesive egalitarianism and equality. And through that, incentivise maximised productivity and efficiency!

As opposed to stalled and stagnating economic paradigms currently preferred by greed motivated entities and decision-makers and their spitlickle lackeys

And it's not as though there are other superior economic choices, given this is the only successful free market, private enterprise, economic model that conscripts the usual economic flow on factors and obliges them to force every one dollar to stay in our economy doing the work of seven or more! TBC.
Alan B.

Interesting that the only person who agrees with this half wit calls himself "Daffy Duck"?
Why this was given any time is beyond me. Anyone who feels he has any credence sell your house to me for twenty bucks and take to the road.

Intro looked interesting and the ride began ok but the steering started to shake at David Suzuki. Tried to hang on a bit longer but then came half man, half bear, half pig and realized the wheels were coming off so I bailed out.

Cont. Energy and water are critical as are the two pillars that alone support every western-style economy, energy and capital! Capital has never ever been cheaper, energy never ever dearer! Moreover, weaponised by adversarial nation-states!

We need to break this nexus and use the lazy trillion dollars of lazy capital around the globe to change everything we've effed up in the last seven or so decades, courtesy of ultra-conservative thinkers/fiscal illiterates.

Who compounded their mistakes/our problems, as long as they were able, by continuously repeating them in an absolutely asinine capital/surplus squandering, vote pur-chasing exercise, of biblical proportions!

Sat on their hands, when as a trading nation, we should have been transitioning to a cheaper, carbon-free, reliable, dispatchable, MSR thorium/nuclear wast burning, nuclear power!

And thereby allowing us to not only retain our manufacturing base, but massively expand it!

Coupled to the rollout of deionisation dialysis desalination, we could've quite literally drought-proof the nation as well as a changed arid wasteland, from dust bowls to veritable clean green gardens of maximised export agriculture/food and fibre production.

Middlemen profit taker/commission sales (robber barons)need to be outlawed, given these absurdities force price to always rise faster than natural inflation and double the cost of doing business/cost of living!

Finally, the last piece of this economic jigsaw has to be fair dinkum tax reform that incorporates massive simplification and has to be unavoidable! And rolled out as an unavoidable flat tax of 15%

Coupled to a very generous raising of the tax-free threshold!

15%!? Hell, that'll force most companies to pay more tax! Given the most they paid for the year ending 2017, was 13%, as actual cash transferred to consolidated revenue, with some paying as little as 4%, and a reported 40% paying no company tax to anyone anywhere?

Farm tax practises and 7-year averaging can remain and adjusted downward at the new rate.

Remember, this is a tax on profits/earnings/income! Not turnover as represented by the usual, recalcitrant, vexatious mischief-makers and BS artists! Who want a fair and equitable one-tier UNAVOIDABLE tax system, like a hole in the head
Alan B.