One of the biggest problems we're going to face in the coming years is what I would describe as churning or disaster capitalism. Another is ISDS and its progeny. They are symptoms of a rapid decline in power held by working people and voters, due to a moving of decision making power out of the hands of national leaders (the people who are voted in and out of office) and into the hands of totally unaccountable and unelected "global governance institutions" whose administration and membership is controlled by a few large and powerful countries that all have a huge democracy deficit due to their having been taken over by huge multinational corporations. In whats described as the "trilemma" of globalization, democracy as people expect it has been basically ended except in name only, in whats claimed changes made to ensure the stability of the global financial system and investors.
See
How to understand policy trilemmas | World Economic Forum
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/04/how-to-understand-policy-trilemmas/But, we never got the memo. So we're unlikely to be able to figure out whats happening with any accuracy until its too late. There is a reason these people are so rich and we're so poor and its that they spend a lot of time on this, even obsess about it, and for us, its just part of our full lives.
We're out of our league.
We'd be wise to stick to the most boring and safe everything because we live in what is increasingly a captured planet. Any excuse some people we've often mistakenly entrusted with power have to exploit anything they can characterize as an 'emergency' they will grab. They are not like normal people, they have no moral compass. Few people in our normal world are like that but large percentages of people in power are. Wealth in many people is an obsession or addiction. They literally would rather be dead than poor and subject to the same rules as others. They manipulate the system. They see themselves as above the law. And when they screw up, they screw up really really badly and WE ALL PAY THE PRICE, not them. That's guaranteed. They are laughing at us.
Do you understand what I am getting at? the world is going through a dangerous time. We still have trust, a legacy of gentler times. That trust is no longer appropriate.
A big problem we're facing most people don't even know is there. A relentless pressure on countries to sign irreversible or nearly irreversible trade and investment agreements that take policy out of the hands of voters and lock in decisions, even bad decisions, requiring insane amounts of punitive dmages if a country needs to escape them. It can take decades and huge payments from taxpayer funds of alleged 'lost expected profits"
People need to spend some quality time in research to understand whats being done. I'm reluctant to post URLS because frankly the issue is really quite technical and since it seems many people are desperate to have it not be discussed its best to give more general information. ISDS means "investor vs. state dispute settlement" Another term used by some to describe the clauses in these agreements is "trojan horse clauses" another is "indirect expropriation". They make facts like what is safe for a country irrelevant because they frame disputes in simple terms a dispute might hinge on what a company claim they expect but the system is really rigged in the worst way.
Imagine being in a court where you could only be sued by, not sue companies and the only questions the court were allowed to decide were highly technical ones like "did you agree to not change any law or regulation after this date"? Period.
The combined impact of air pollution from coal, diesel exhaust, natural gas / methane and emissions of elemental mercury associated with coal on health are astronomical and they impact the weakest among us as well as the strong. Mercury also seems to be building up in many areas in ways we haven't seen before. They all threaten a great many peoples lives and health, as well as human reproduction, and there is no denying it.
But nuclear fission is NOT the 'solution' to that some are portraying it as. It's another can of worms filled with its own potentially world altering problems.
Nuclear isn't without problems, but neither is hydro electric or any other form of electric power source we know of. If you think nuclear shouldn't be part of the solution then you have to explain what should and show that it causes less harm than nuclear. Energy reduction isn't without problems either, if we make food, medicine and healthcare more expensive it also means that people get hurt.
Maybe you understand me, maybe you don't. I'm just saying we have to go very carefully because the system is so very rigged against the interests of normal people now, and getting more so every day. We no longer have democracy. Any change of any kind will be exploited in ways we are unlikely to understand until years down the line we realize we walked right into a trap.
The smartest thing we could all do is cut our energy usage to the bone rather than
make new commitments that cant be reversed. Every possible excuse will be used to steal from the taxpayers of the world. Thats the one thing the oligarchs agree on. They are a clubby little bunch and they are united against us.
Look up the huge number of ISDS cases that have been brought against taxpayers around the world involving energy. For example, under the Energy Charter Treaty.
If you don't know what ISDS is, maybe you should do some research and learn what I'm trying to explain to you and us. It changes everything.