There doesn't appear to be a mature adult at any table of power on Earth.

[Magoo48]

The problem is, putting in place people with no religious, corporate, patriotic, cultural, nationalistic, or military axe to grind. These would be people simply wise enough to recognize that peace is the only way to salvage humanity and perhaps focus our needed resources on looming climate catastrophe, in other words, people with no power. Humanity is failing.

[ret5hd]

1. 1: Biden

[Voltaire2]

2. So not only is the system shredding the environment

but it is also shredding human consciousness. The disintegration of both are very much connected, they are the two external interfaces of the system. The problem is the system itself.

[Autumn]

3. This is the most profound statement I have seen on DU in years.

Thank you.

[shrike3]

4. You forgot the greed aspect.

A lot of these people just want to accumulate as much as possible and to hell with the rest of us.

[Magoo48]

16. Yes i did. Greed, generally based in fear, may drive the rest.

[DemSigns]

5. Zelensky

sp. nt.

[The Blue Flower]

6. Joe Biden is one

We're so fortunate to have him.

[Magoo48]

22. We are indeed fortunate to have him.

The solutions we need are beyond his grasp.

[limbicnuminousity]

7. I hold out hope

for younger generations.

[90-percent]

9. younger generations

yeah, if my boomer generation (b.1954) doesn't environmentally incinerate all of them first.

-90% Jimmy

[soldierant]

11. When the Boomer generation was the younger generation,

we were going to save the world. And we didn't change. But we didn't take power either.

The problem with hoping in the younger generation is that every generation has two kinds of people, and usually the ones who are interested in saving the world and not interested in power get pushed out by the time they are our age.

[limbicnuminousity]

13. Similar things happened/are happening with GenX

I share your concerns. Anecdotal observations suggest that GenZ in particular knows something needs to change. Will it be enough? Who knows?

[twodogsbarking]

8. The leader that we could use the most cannot be elected. I support Biden but he can only do so much

within the confines of our society. Too many opposing forces against what is needed. Compromise, while necessary, isn't for the best all of the time.

[Magoo48]

17. Agreed. Looking to the top for leadership is time wasted.

For a myriad of complex reasons, leadership from the top will remain stymied. There must be powerful grassroots upwellings across the human spectrum, movements with reasonably compatible long term goals, movements with dynamic leaders willing to collaborate and join forces into a wave of new thought which cannot be ignored. Perhaps Gen Z can pull it off?

[twodogsbarking]

18. The "left" isn't "left" enough. They just think they are.

Whaterver "left" is.

[rubbersole]

10. There are bright spots on the horizon.

Greta Thunberg, David Hogg, Taylor Swift...and just the politically aware young people across the globe. Too late to save the planet? They don't seem to think so. Neither do I.

[Progressive dog]

12. There are many mature adults at tables of power on Earth

It's pretty tough to find a nation that does not include nationalists. Governments are supposed to protect their citizens from each other and from outside organizations. We need those protections as history shows us.
Mature adults face facts and find a way to live with facts that they cannot change. All those organizations you mention are inventions of humans. What would you replace them with. Peace is not an institution.

[Magoo48]

19. Facing facts is good. The fact is that without a massive, and relatively immediate

paradigm shift if human values, the only courses worth teaching in K-12 on up will be adaptive civil engineering, creative survival options, and extinction avoidance theory.

[Progressive dog]

23. Human values huh

What would the human value paradigm shift from and to?
Besides, extinction of humans is unlikely. No other animals can compete with us. I expect we will continue dumping green house gases into the atmosphere until the climate change limits our food supply enough to cause massive numbers of humans to die from hunger and wars over agricultural resources.

[TeamProg]

14. Just about EVERY Democrat in Congress. nt

[Magoo48]

20. They are grand and I'm glad we have them. The solutions humanity need are out

of their reach for the foreseeable future.

[Xoan]

15. Bullshit.

[edisdead]

21. Agreed.