The Emerging World: American Opportunity: Part 2

Rules of the Road for American participation in the development of the Emerging World:

Point #1: Environmental sustainability, cradle to cradle product cycles, and global energy program stability.

The climate is in crisis and the ramifications of climate change are escalating faster than IPCC scientists can accurately project. This poses a massive existential threat to mankind's survival, and the nature of our bio-sphere generally. The effects have only recently been felt, but they are a cascading and arithmetically accelerating series of interconnected events. 

The conundrum is that the developed world has no rights (nor should it) to deny the economic benefits of development to a developing world hungry for the same opportunities that we in America have capitalized on for a century. What to do then? 

The minority percentage of the world's population (that is the developed world), has already flung our planet into environmental chaos.  So how to fulfill our responsibilities to the rest of the human family and still save the habitability of our biosphere? How can we orchestrate and insure a continued high quality of life for all citizens of our planet, when we have so poorly mismanaged resource and environmental assets to this point?

The answer beautifully folds the a) fulfillment of opportunities needed for economic revivalism in America, post economic crisis, b) the need for a comprehensive global strategy to address climate change, & c) the fulfillment of the promise of the developing world all into one potential path to progress.

America needs to shift immediately (WWII style) to produce and aggressively compete with, the developed world in the creation of new green and clean technologies, applicable to all modalities of living. (separate thread of posts) 

America then needs to actively export those technologies and make their usage/implementation in different areas of the developing world part of an UN and national aide architecture that constitutes one component of our global diplomatic/ security/ entrenchment strategy.

This will require the revitalization or conversion of vast portions of the private sector and new thinking in the public sector. That particular thorny issue will be addressed in detail at a later date.