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10. One major thing has changed in my way of thinking over the years...

I used to be fairly libertarian (Please, notice the lower case 'l') in my views toward society. It went like this, if one doesn't like how things are run where you are then go over the next mountain or river and start something how you believe it should be run.
A fairly common thought and possibly a universal human view of the nature of how things ought to work. I'll admit, a very exploitative idea which grew out of the explosive growth of industry and technology over the first half of the last century. Real wisdom was left on the way side.

What is different now is that the population of this country and the world has more than doubled and with that growth there are no more mountains or rivers to cross to start anew. (It was finite and limited to begin with.) Huge swaths of the human population have not come to terms with this reality, yet. If we as a species are to survive we must shift from an exclusively growth ideology to one based on maintenance and compromise. Social responsibility. Recognizing that all is finite and everyone deserves a comfortable share or at the very least a fair share of the resources.

If that doesn't happen we will not survive.

All I see is more of the same and denial of the situation.