The UN is doing some things related to sustainability. There appoach is flawed, because it does not adequately apply term intelligence to all the decisions.
The failure to approach things with different terms (I use 3, but why not 2 or 10?) of intelligence is that for some reason, we focus only on today or some future time and never use an orgainized system of breaking time into groups.
The need to look at today is because we live in today. The reason to look out 5 years is because what we do today will affect us in 5 years differently than it affects us today. The reason to look out 50 years is because our children will live in that world along with our grandchildren. The reason to look out 500 years is because it is probably the extent of our intellectual ability to view with any degree of success and if our lives have any purpose (which they do not, by the way, except perhaps to do our duty under the theory that the creator wants us to entertain him in some fashion and that there are some duties associated with playing our part) we have to survive and have a platform to move forward within that time frame.
Since we know we have an unsustainable growth rate, the question of who is steering this boat into oblivion should be raised early and often. Leaders who cannot envision rules and philosophies for our societies that do not include immediate, short term and long term applicability should not remain in office.
The reactionary policy makers who look for "peace in our lifetime" and "allocation of resources today" without looking out far into the future are just "jerking the numbers" (see earlier blogs for appropriate attribution).
Are you sick of it? The world is literally ruled by idiots (us) who don't look at things based on different time frames and do not have the courage to push for hard decisions to be made. The people as a whole are idiots who do not look (far) beyond their next meal even while individuals, almost all individuals have great insight. This disconnect between individual intelligence and group idiocy is one of the compelling and difficult to understand aspects of mankind. It is compelling because without elevating human individual intelligence to the intelligence of large groups we are doomed to wipe ourselves out by accident.
If it were suicide by design it would be well worth considering (since we are apparently a species which cannot control ourselves or act for the common good and perhaps should make way for whatever comes next-intelligent insects?); but the fact that we are doing it by accident is just so unintelligent and un-illuminated that it frustrates and challenges the intellect.
This blog must eventually tackle two issues: 1) why there is such a complete disconnect between individual and group intelligence and 2) how to correct this apparent breakdown in the evolution of intelligence.
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