Why The United States Can't Handle Crises (16 minute video so accurate it hurts)

[Bucky]

[thucythucy]

1. Thank you for posting this. nt

[Skittles]

2. sugar is not the sole cause of obesity

people don't MOVE as much as they used to - lifestyles for too many have become very sedentary

[Maraya1969]

5. That's true too. When I was a kid we were always active. Now with computers

I fear these kids hardly have a chance. Plus they have done away with PE and other sports in grade school and high school.

[Skittles]

11. and it's not just kids

I know people who claim they don't have time for exercise but then will constantly talk about what they "binge-watched". I remember people at work who would time their trips to the printer with their trips to the bathroom; of course these same people just cannot understand why they can't lose weight......

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. There are a lot of factors. Although I think sugar is huge.

When I was a kid, in the 1950s and 60s, a soft drink was an occasional treat. Now a lot of people drink them all day long. I stopped drinking soft drinks a good 25 years ago, and sometimes when I'm in the grocery store I'm shocked at the cartons of them in shopping carts.

Another is that portion sizes, especially in restaurants, have gotten huge. I simply cannot finish a normal portion size any more. I have to choose between leaving half of more of the meal behind, or take it home in the hopes I will want to heat it up the next day. More often I only order an appetizer. Back when McDonald's first came on the scene, you could get a hamburger, a cheeseburger, fries, milkshakes, and soft drinks. Then they added double cheeseburgers, the Big Macs, large orders of fries, and so on. Most people who get fast food probably eat at least triple what they would have back in the day. It adds up.

Sedentary lifestyle also matter, as you've pointed out.

[Geechie]

3. Well done!

I’ll be sharing this.

[Maraya1969]

4. Horrying. And to think the GQP/Russian have gotten a good % of Americans to believe

that socialism is evil. And that we are in direct danger of it!

Thank you for posting this. I think the US needs a big information campaign to help stop the stupid. I have no idea how that would look but I bet there are smart people who can figure it out.

[BobTheSubgenius]

6. So many of these things, as the video says, have been knowable for years and years.

The time to get started on a response for many of THE most dire problems is long in the rear view mirror, but we can at least mitigate.

Impending catastrophes with much shorter onset - another pandemic, or the deflating population numbers - need to be addressed NOW. Not when the wolf is already at the door.

I keep coming back to something I started saying a few years ago, but mostly tongue-in-cheek back then. This is not a bad time to be in one's 60s.

I am no longer facetious about that statement. I've had a good run. A GREAT run, and millions of my peers have, too. We truly lived The Good Old Days...what I consider the zenith of Western Civilization. We are now clearly on the back side of that graph, and trying to hang on, hoping "our" world will hold together long enough to not experience the worst of the fallout.

That's another reason for not having children that wasn't mentioned. What kind of world will they have?

[Bayard]

8. Bookmarking

[orleans]

9. wow. k&r n/t

[Warpy]

10. Predatory capitalism says it all

and the reason predatory capitalism exists is because of a wimpy, weak government that fails to enforce the laws on the books because they're afraid of losing office. They're also handsomely rewarded if they look the other way.

They're no longer even pretending to care. They'd do away with elections tomorrow if they thought they could pull it off.

[Javaman]

12. K & R nt

[Javaman]

13. K & R nt