There is a big net of problems in our culture. I am sure other cultures had problems too, but today, our network is so extensive that I just wanted to see how far I can get. I am not a major in anything so this is just a part of the real problem out there:
We don't have any money. Our national debt is above 15 trillion dollars now and there is no way we can pay that in the next 20 years. We have stopped making stuff and now we are only buying from other places with money that we don't have because we are not producing anything to sell and get money. The people don't have any money to spend and generate a sustainable economy because our culture is based on use and trash, buy and trash, borrow and trash; trash, trash, trash. We generate so much trash that the only exports increasing in our country is the amount of scrap metal that we sell. The problem is that if people trashed less and reused, reduced, and recycled more, they would have more money to spend. They would have more money available to buy organic fruits and vegetables. Everyone knows that many Americans are obese and that the percentage of people with Diabetes Type 2 is increasing, but not a lot of people know that a majority of Americans also have a deficiency of some mineral or vitamin. That means that we are eating too much junk food and too little real food. Yes, I do mean real, because the fast food we eat isn't real food, at least not in the sense that our human race has been used to for millions of years. So what happens? We eat a lot of bad food because it tastes good. In our minds, there is no need to eat right because we would all like to believe that we are immune to cancer and diabetes somehow. Now, by eating more fast food, processed food, and fake food, we are encouraging the subsidy of corn in our country. That means that billions of our tax dollars are being used to produce corn. Now what's the problem with all this? By eating all this bad food and getting sick, more people need health care from the government. That means that we spend our tax dollars in making bad food cheap so we can eat it and then we spend more money to buy medicine and go to the doctor's because of all the bad, cheap food we ate for decades. Now, if the government has to spend more money for our health, it means that it has to cut back in other areas. Agencies like the EPA and the FDC should get less money to balance our budget. But guess what? We vote for people to go to the capital to fight for us and so they do. Our representatives don't wanna cut back on anything because they want us to like them so we will reelect them. By reelecting these officials who put their constituencies above their country, we cause the increase in spending in some areas with a decrease in others. Now, many will either say cut on the EPA or on the defense spending right. Well, the way the earth is going, what we need to do now is exponentially increase EPA funding, or whatever place is looking for answers to help our planet. Soon we won't have any water left in the world and the people don't know or don't care enough. Without water, we cannot survive. It seems like a stretch for us who have a water faucet that seems like an unlimited source of fresh water. But you know what? It is often not fresh and it is definitely not unlimited. We do not live in a cycle of water anymore because we destroyed it. That's enough for now...
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