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Obama said Americans’ reluctance to embrace his favored environmental policies is a sign of laziness.
“Usually when you see the environment destroyed, it’s not because it’s necessary for development,” Obama said. “It’s usually because we’re being lazy and we’re not being as creative as we could be about how to do it in a smarter, more sustainable way.”
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“The United States is and can be a great force for good in the world. But because we’re such a big country, we haven’t always had to know about other parts of the world,” he said. “If you’re in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we’re so big we don’t have to really know anything about other people.”
Obama said Americans’ reluctance to embrace his favored environmental policies is a sign of laziness.
“Usually when you see the environment destroyed, it’s not because it’s necessary for development,” Obama said. “It’s usually because we’re being lazy and we’re not being as creative as we could be about how to do it in a smarter, more sustainable way.”
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“The United States is and can be a great force for good in the world. But because we’re such a big country, we haven’t always had to know about other parts of the world,” he said. “If you’re in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we’re so big we don’t have to really know anything about other people.”
Obama said Americans’ reluctance to embrace his favored environmental policies is a sign of laziness.
“Usually when you see the environment destroyed, it’s not because it’s necessary for development,” Obama said. “It’s usually because we’re being lazy and we’re not being as creative as we could be about how to do it in a smarter, more sustainable way.”
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“The United States is and can be a great force for good in the world. But because we’re such a big country, we haven’t always had to know about other parts of the world,” he said. “If you’re in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we’re so big we don’t have to really know anything about other people.”
Obama is right about this though. At least in the sense that we have to become more sustainable and I believe it's more about entitlement rather than laziness.
America does need to utilize more sustainable technology and scale back its lifestyle. Currently, if everyone in the world were to adopt our lifestyle, 5.5 earths worth of resources would be required to sustain it. As you can see, this is simply unsustainable.
As Americans, we have the responsibility to take on a leadership role and guide the rest of the world if we truly believe that our way of life will lead us to a future that we as a global society are willing to embrace.
How many of us can say we have a strong desire to be around in the future? How often have we stolen from the future to pay for today? It is time for us to pay our debt and create a world that is better than the one we left behind.
However, you can't force people to scale back. People need to have the desire to make sacrifices for the future. People need to believe in consequences and believe we are held accountable for our actions today in the future even if we believe we will not be on earth to see the efforts of our work.
Examples of ways we can improve is to create a more efficient logistical system with a large enough scale that it can also be responsive. It is likely that we will experience an oil shock in the relatively near future. This could be absolutely devastating for our economy, so it will be important that our leadership develops internal projects to ensure Americans have an opportunity to feed their families.
We should use the best engineers in the world and force them to work with environmental engineers and environmental scientists until they collaborate and determine a way that we can utilize our technology to create more sustainable systems. America and Americans in general should strive to become as self-sufficient as possible.
We should do what we can to restore the environment. Ideally, if we have the discipline and respect for one another, we could create an environment where the majority of our needs are met through the use of automation, and we are able to use our time to explore the world or to work towards ideas that will make improvements to our current system, benefiting everyone.
Hopefully as a society, we will begin moving towards this direction.
Obama is right about this though. At least in the sense that we have to become more sustainable and I believe it's more about entitlement rather than laziness.
America does need to utilize more sustainable technology and scale back its lifestyle. Currently, if everyone in the world were to adopt our lifestyle, 5.5 earths worth of resources would be required to sustain it. As you can see, this is simply unsustainable.
As Americans, we have the responsibility to take on a leadership role and guide the rest of the world if we truly believe that our way of life will lead us to a future that we as a global society are willing to embrace.
How many of us can say we have a strong desire to be around in the future? How often have we stolen from the future to pay for today? It is time for us to pay our debt and create a world that is better than the one we left behind.
However, you can't force people to scale back. People need to have the desire to make sacrifices for the future. People need to believe in consequences and believe we are held accountable for our actions today in the future even if we believe we will not be on earth to see the efforts of our work.
Examples of ways we can improve is to create a more efficient logistical system with a large enough scale that it can also be responsive. It is likely that we will experience an oil shock in the relatively near future. This could be absolutely devastating for our economy, so it will be important that our leadership develops internal projects to ensure Americans have an opportunity to feed their families.
We should use the best engineers in the world and force them to work with environmental engineers and environmental scientists until they collaborate and determine a way that we can utilize our technology to create more sustainable systems. America and Americans in general should strive to become as self-sufficient as possible.
We should do what we can to restore the environment. Ideally, if we have the discipline and respect for one another, we could create an environment where the majority of our needs are met through the use of automation, and we are able to use our time to explore the world or to work towards ideas that will make improvements to our current system, benefiting everyone.
Hopefully as a society, we will begin moving towards this direction.
Just because he is right does not mean you tell an entire country (and the world) this statement. That does nothing but put an image into that countries head that Americans are like that.
Just because he is right does not mean you tell an entire country (and the world) this statement. That does nothing but put an image into that countries head that Americans are like that.
I understand. It won't accomplish much except for the spread of hatred. However, if a Trump presidency gives us the opportunity to make our own decisions and not be instructed on what to do by a global entity, we must act quickly to once again become the beacon of light for the rest of the world.
I truly believe it's our responsibility as a once great Christian nation to create a society that we can all be proud of, even if it requires a tremendous amount of disciplined effort from all of its citizens. I fear if we don't make the decision to change the world ourselves, a decision may be made to save the world from it citizens by any means necessary if you catch my drift.
This is our chance. We should make the best of it. A smart government would create some sort of intelligent business related incentive to drive our major corporations to committing its resources towards the triple bottom line, as opposed to simply generating profit by any means necessary. At the same time, the program itself should have the objective of ultimately lowering the cost to every US citizen, so they can obtain all the benefits of a clearer environment, including more locally produced, clean food products.
Many societies in the past collapsed because they didn't pay enough attention to the environment. Now is our opportunity.
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