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Sun Minister
As an interested citizen, you can think more responsibly and somewhat more foresightedly by considering the really important and earth-shattering problems. Let's take for example our sun, which will really heat us up in 1,1 billion years at the latest and will be fatal in 6,3 billion years. You've just replanted your garden, and in a few billion years the sun will thwart your plans. In view of this, all our previous problems are at best side issues.
As a responsible citizen, I suggest a corresponding sun ministry, which is set up and financed appropriately according to the importance. It could also be combined with an additional sun insurance, into which all citizens have to pay in order to be able to have sufficient funds available in the event of an insurance claim.
Politics
No matter what problems or challenges our politics address today, the corresponding solutions always have one thing in common, namely that they only have an impact on the current majority of voters when it no longer exists. Climate neutrality can serve as a good example, and should only be rudimentarily achieved by 2050 at the earliest, but only if it does not have any negative effects on today or on one's own voters. And even supposedly “green” governments are planning effective environmental protection, such as: For example, the completely irresponsible urban sprawl of our country can only be stopped when our own clientele has made themselves comfortable in suburban villas or former farms in the countryside, including the appropriate infrastructure so that they do not have to forego the amenities of cities. The target for Baden-Württemberg was now set to be sometime in the 2030s. So there is still enough time so that the government itself does not have to act and to also stimulate another construction boom! — But the best thing about it is that you can secure good positions for decades to come.
Fun
After all these decades, it's just funny how we all always want to have everything, but are not at all willing to contribute anything productive ourselves. At first I was annoyed about it, later wondered and now it just amuses me.
The nice thing about it is that the power of the factual is slowly taking hold and our state will no longer be able to satisfy the citizens themselves with further trillion payments.
Now, whether you like it or not, you have to finally realize that money can't buy everything and, more importantly, that even human growth is slowly but surely reaching its limits. And not only will the number of us humans have peaked in the foreseeable future and we will be fewer again worldwide, but the average intelligence of people will continue to decline.
We can already see the first effects on us. Although we can still put hospitals, fire stations and police stations in every village at great expense, we will only be able to staff them with qualified personnel in the larger cities and in some villages or small towns we can no longer do this.
Slowly but surely things are also getting tight for other services and trades and in the medium to long term we will hardly be able to buy the missing skilled workers from abroad. So we have to put up with it, either to activate available fellow citizens and to recruit hardly or not at all qualified new citizens and to train them in the best possible way or to increasingly rely on robotics. But probably both and accepting that the world continues to turn against us, whether we like it or not.
And that's why we're going to have to rethink infrastructure and where we live — the sooner the better — and slowly come to terms with the fact that we — that is, our children and grandchildren — won't be able to maintain our current fully comprehensive lifestyle for much longer.
The only bad thing about it will be that we will all believe the false promises of totalitarians beforehand and thus allow ourselves to be deprived of the last luxury, namely democracy and freedom.
site of the day
The Institute for World Resources is one of many organizations concerned about our future. The institute is looking for simple and practical ways to make life better for all of us and at the same time to protect nature.
