If you wait to solve all the challenges of zero pollution and depletion before starting, we’ll never start. If we start, we’ll solve the problems.
People dream that we’ll figure out how to keep our world as it is, just without pollution and depletion. We’ll just create new technology that does what existing technology does, but it will be “clean,” “green,” and “renewable.”
Well, shoot, why didn’t people think of making technology that didn’t hurt people in the first place? What jerks, not making things “clean,” “green,” and “renewable.”
Oh wait, maybe it’s not possible to replicate the results of technology that violates the Constitution (by depriving people of life, liberty, and property without due process of law) with technology that doesn’t. Maybe we’re dreaming of an impossible fantasy.
Even if it is possible to fly, drive, and ship thousands of shipping containers per load across oceans without violating the Constitution, the process we’re using, of imagining solutions to every problem before stopping the violations, won’t work.
What won’t work
The process below doesn’t work. On the contrary, it’s distracting us from what will work.
What will work
A process that will work is to enforce the Constitution by not allowing pollution and depletion. The result will be a market that allocates resources to people who can solve the problems that arise. Actual people feeling actual problems can solve them more effectively than people dreaming hypothetical future problems we aren’t yet experiencing.
Besides, how can we object to enforcing the Constitution? The process below will work:
Summary
Dreaming technology for hypothetical problems has been failing for longer than I’ve been alive. In the meantime, it’s leading to a nation of people and the government itself profiting and gaining power from violating its founding documents. Besides the Constitution, we’re violating the Declaration’s requirement of consent of the governed.
Enforcing the Constitution by preventing the deprivation of people’s life, liberty, and property without due process of law will work. Everyone will miss the following clarification, but I’m not suggesting only this process. I’m proposing this difference as one strategy among many as part of an overall mission to achieve a vision.
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