Shocking 2013 UN report to be ignored again

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The UN World Economic and Social Survey 2013, recently launched in Geneva calls for change in global strategies to transition from the present global crises-in-waiting to sustainable development. For several decades the UN has published similar dismal statistics and pontificated the same dire warning – “Rising inequalities, food, fuel and financial crises, and the breaching of planetary boundaries” will exert more “pressure on land, water and biodiversity resources.” The report continues: “Fresh Ideas…… innovative strategies and investments are needed.”

If anyone has been paying attention they would have noticed that while the world pays UN officials honorable lip service those who sponsor these illustrious institutions generally ignore their reports. Anyone who takes the trouble to think clearly and do the sums will realize that the global economy cannot continue to work and accumulate wealth the way it does, without global poverty, inequalities and ruthless exploitation of environmental resources as the necessary conditions for capitalists to thrive. The equations for mathematically demonstrating this point might be rather tricky for the average layman to appreciate but the truth of the matter is nevertheless very simple – the less you have to pay your workforce, (in relation to the price of goods and services) and the more they multiply and compete in the labor markets for employment, the more profit employers and traders make and the wealthier they become in comparison to the working class.

Surely, these illustrious personalities in the UN and similar institutions must be intelligent enough to know this. And furthermore, they must be smart enough to realize they will never be able to change this when their biggest sponsors are capitalists. And finally, like the Pope’s college of Cardinals, they must be sly enough to appreciate that they need to continue with their pontification and pretense of doing good for humanity for as long as the world is willing to pay honorable lip service and play along with the charade. Then they will always be in a comfortable job and will always be able to continue enjoying privileges the working class hordes will never know.

The only fresh Idea and strategythat will really prevent a crisis and change the history of the planet would be for people to return to the traditional lifestyle still practiced by communities such as those on the Japanese island of Okinawa, the Vilcabambans in Ecuador, South America, the Abkhasians in the Caucasus mountains of South Russia, and the Hunzans in the Himalayas of Pakistan.

In the book Healthy at 100 by John Robbins - Weston A Price Foundation
 research documents how with only basic technology and medical intervention, these amazing communities live happily with good health some twenty to thirty years longer than the working class in the rest of the world. Consciously dependent on sustaining environmental resources for the benefit of their future generations, they know and deeply understand many things that UN officials and capitalists do not. It’s not surprising to see how capitalists today are doing everything they can to prevent a return to traditional lifestyles. That wouldn’t be good for business. It should be shocking to learn this but somehow these serious matters continue to be ignored by most politiclans and the mainstream media.