But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently.
Regime change is not within that purview. And that has been an all-out disaster.
The Obama Administration has embraced the policies of George W. Bush, and then gone much further. Wall Street bailouts went ballistic under Obama-$700 billion under Bush, but $4. 5 trillion under Obama, plus another $16 trillion in zero-interest loans for Wall Street.
We call for cancelling student debt, for bailing out young people like Wall Street was bailed out to the tune of $16 trillion.
We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or the other.
We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.
The other piece of this is that we call for cutting our bloated and dangerous military budget. And this is something that is made possible by moving to 100% clean renewable energy, where we cannot justify wars for oil, and where we cannot justify having some 700, 800 bases gathered around the world in something like 100 countries in significant measure protecting either access to fossil fuels or protecting routes of transportation.
Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.
In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.