Communism is not the answer, as Marx’s theories on proletarian assignment of labor to maximize production in a communal faction. The largest simplification we can make is that the state system and economic globalization is intertwining the societies of the world to push for even greater degrees of factory farming, private sector growth and industrialization, which rarely lends itself towards efforts of “sustainability,” a pithy attempt to minimize the exploitation of the earth. Read Daniel Quinn.

We are facing a future of exponential damage to our ecology, and we will be lucky if there is anything left for the next generation. Like the inhabitants of Easter Island, who immigrated to the island, used up the timber and deforested the island, were unable to build boats to escape, and resorted to cannibalism before extinction, humanity has emerged from prehistory to record a long and gradual appointment with disaster.