Halfway trough, very interesting. The problem is not in the problem itself, it can be fixed by alternate energy sources, (dare I say it) population growth control or even space colonization... But there is a lack of probibly the most rare resource on the planet:
Willpower. We have the money, we have the manpower, we have the brainpower, but people are to conserned with who will win the next american/britain/german/ethiopian idol and who's nailing britney spears.
That's the simple fact that forces me to agreee with Skybird:
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It is implications from problems like this, and the implications, that led me to believe that voting in elections should not be considered a basic right, but a privilege for which one has to qualify by proving some basic knoweldge, as well as correct memory of political decisions and consequences of the past legislation periods. I honestely believe that uneducated or stupid people should not be allowed to vote, and that voting just by habit is counterproductive for demcoarcy - because by that people are contributing to increasing damage - and they do not even realise it.
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Even if it is the total opposite of what I believe in, but the general population is not, shall we say interested in their future beyond the next weekend. We can teach them in school to be more active, and more foresighted but that smells of political indoctrination or we can have the media do more to make people acutally think, but the free press will suffer (even more than today).
Solutions are many and made by smarter people than us at subsim and even an average joe can come to a worldsaving solution, but smart people are not running our countries. An dpoliticans are quite content with the sheep... khm I mean the masses that are easily satisfied with a carrot while leading them to the slaughterhouse. As long as their's a TV in the slaughtering block thats shows Britain/Slovenia/Kazakhstan has got talent.
P.S. never mentioned any parties or systems, political names or doctrines soooo, I think my post passed the no-politics rule (I hope)