Sustainability and open-borders do not work. The old Sierra Club was for sustainability before they became part of LaRaza/DNC.
The Founders left us a sustainable Republic, if we could keep it. The biggest threat to sustainability always has been the unwillingness of people who have taken the Oath of Office to be honest with the meaning of the words in the Constitution.
Compare Hamilton’s refusal to give money out of the public treasury with the river of money disbursed under the now “reimagined” and ever-elastic Commerce and Welfare clauses.
Compare:
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” (James Madison)
With:
“It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance at success, too… My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. If you’ve got a plumbing business, you’re gonna be better off [...] if you’ve got a whole bunch of customers who can afford to hire you, and right now everybody’s so pinched that business is bad for everybody and I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” (candidate Obama)
A night and day difference to say the least.
Unless and until we find a way for the States to improve the fidelity of federal officials to adhere to the plain meaning of the Constitution, our Republic cannot be sustainable.
For me, the risks of calling a Constitutional Convention are now less than the risks of allowing the present train wreck to continue.
Right now our Republic is in the hands of misinformed voters. Until the electorate learns the American history the government schools continue to hide our Republic will be at risk.
I feel like Pavlov’s dog. When I hear the word “green” I feel compelled to buy it. From green food boxes that suddenly appeared on store shelves to green banks or even TV channels: green = good. Likewise, sustainable, biodiversity, diversity, ecological, regenerative, organic, natural, and carbon neutral things turn me on. They remind me of how ethical I am when I tithe to the secular God of man, preaching the religion of humanism, the spiritual tantric feel good stuff which allows me to act out every selfish fantasy I may have irrespective of all consequences.
These words are all marketing: Green, sustainable, organic, natural, carbon neutral, ecological, regenerative...... they are all part of the polemic used by sales and politics, but don’t look behind the curtain, because those that use those words often fly around in jets and live in 20,000 square foot or more mansions. They just know how to ride the waves like a surfer, riding these faddy trendy themes for their own political or economic benefit.... i.e. Al Gore, GE, etc etc etc..... At the end of the day it’s all trash. I allows kids to have a purpose, artists to make a statement, advances political careers, and in makes some innovative firms millions selling a conceptual idea which is sort of like the pet rock, can of fresh air or even cigarette. Like “Hope and Change” it’s simple, catchy, and often means different things to different people who read into it what they want. It’s full of logical fallacies, they exhibit all the characteristics of a fad or a trend, the science is often shoddy, and like the coming ice age, ozone hole, global warming, now morphed into climate change, they adjust and are forced to constantly change because the music, rhetoric, fashions surrounding these fads loose their inertia with time. You probably don’t want to be seen around today with a tie-dye shirt, but this too was part of one of these fads years past. The sad thing with all this nonsense is that once these social fads pick up momentum, standing out in front and screaming “stop” gets you run over by a freight train. Like a herd of lemmings you’ll be trampled down my a mindless herd that feels really good and “intellectual” about themselves.
There’s nothing wrong with sustainability as long as you realized its dependence upon economic viability. Without such viability, there is no sustainability.