Executive Summary

• Future Betrayal
• Call To Action: The Positive Steps For Fighting Back
• Becoming the change agent these times need

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Betraying The Future

As bad as the above list of betrayals is, the worst is the betrayal of the future. If you talk to people under the age of 30, many of them will report being quite glum about the future. Often they will cite things like global warming, or student debt, or a sense of dread over species loss as reasons for their concerns.

The truth is we are 7.4 billion people, headed to 9 billion while consuming 1.5 planet’s worth of resources at present, and eating fossil fuels (with 10 or more calories of fossil fuels embedded in each actual food calorie consumed) with no Plan B for making that math work out over the long run.

It’s way past time to begin preparing ourselves for a very different future but that’s not even being discussed except in very limited places, this being one of them.

One brain-dead simple example is that we all know that it’s time to move away from gas-guzzling private autos and towards higher fuel efficiency modes of transportation. Someday the oil peaks and winds down and that will be cataclysmic for any society not prepared for the day.

Electric cars and hybrids are held out by many to be a rational response. Here’s what China, the UK, France and India are doing:

China Sends a Jolt Through Auto Industry With Plans for Electric Future

Sept 2017

China will force auto makers to accelerate production of electric vehicles by 2019, a move that will ripple around the globe as the industry bends to the will of the world’s largest car market.

The move is the latest signal that officials across the globe are determined to phase out traditional internal combustion engines that use gasoline and diesel fuels in favor of environmentally friendly vehicles powered by batteries, despite consumer reservations. The U.K. and France are aiming to end sales of gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2040.