Global Weakness

Abstract

Under basic sovereignty principles, a country’s government is responsible for its own state. Convenient as it might be, it is not credible to blame anyone else. However, at least a joint responsibility should be laid at the doors of global institutions and donors from industrialised countries. They have overseen the general mess that the world now experiences. The planet has two sets of resources: minerals which are largely finite and natural resources which are mostly renewable. From at least the second half of the last century, increasing damage to the natural resources has been documented and trends predicted. In general, it has been underestimated. Despite that, no one in any global institution or in any national government, anywhere, can say they did not know.