moneypit

I agree with this 100%.

My post will include a combination of the reasons above that have been made in multiple posts above. The real answer to all of our problems is far more complex and is best described as having more than one cause. In fact it has many multiple causes all across our society. Reasons include: Political, Physical, Practicality, Efficiency of current technology, Cost of operating current technology, Cost of repairing and maintaining current technology available to us.

The problem is money (cost of technology) and manpower (to implement it).

We will never have enough money to do anything of substantial value and until robotics grows substantially in evolution we will never be able to terraform any part of Australia.

The issue stems from the fact that we are not only overpopulated worldwide but we are also 'betting' on the future (betting that technology will save our bacon) by generating fake money in the US FED.

I do not mean that overpopulation is a bad thing. It is only a bad thing in the sense that it is difficult for people to find a job. That is all. We can sustain our current population but it is reliant upon the current inflated financial situation. Our overpopulation is reliant upon the US FED generating 'fake' money and increasing financial inflation worldwide. If that disappears then that excess population will starve to death.

There is also another way that that excess population can dissappear That is through a 'financial crunching' which I believe will occur in the future. The reason why there will be a financial crunch in the future is because we cannot sustain perpetual growth. Perpetual growth on a planet which is finite in size and resources is impossible to do. Basically we will be unable to pay all of the bills and we will not be able to continue living up to the living standards that we have now, we will denegrate back into a 3rd world country as we were in the 1800s.

For example if we were to create several Nuclear power plants all across australia we could generate enough electricity to pump up water from the Great Artesian Basin and import water from the ocean, We could also provide electricity for air conditioning of inland cities which can reduce the cost of inhabiting inner Australia.

However the cost of operating and maintaining and decomissioning those nuclear power plants would be cost prohibitive for any of this to occur. We would also need a large amount of rare earth metals to maintain these systems.

That is just one example. The main point is that we cannot afford to do anything like this and we should be happy with whatever we have right now. We do have a sustainable population but only just.

If we were to go into war with Asia, as allies of the USA we would be in far greater financial strife than we are now.

When you take out the fat and boil it down to the fewest possible words, the best way to describe our situation would be that we are:
"Just barely surviving"

And the reason why Politics doesn't work is because the people have an unrealistic view of the powers that are available to them. They use that to their advantage to control and manipulate the population. Remember that most if not all politicians were former Lawyers and they all do very good business in their political lifetimes. That is why they are in power. But they are just human beings and as a result they are limited in the amount of things that they can coordinate and control to create something new. Like a railway system.

The power that a politician has is very limited. As a result our public view of their abilities is far greater than they actually are.

And the reason why they lie to us and promise us all of these fantastic ideals but never actually deliver is because it helps for them to be seen as a hero according to the populace, it prevents them from being hated by the populace if the population thinks that they are trying but failiing due to no inadequacy of their own but because the other party in the house is causing problems for them and blocking their path towards "delivering to the people".

These people are professional liers, Just like the christian down the street who promises everlasting life. We are all surrounded by liers.

The cold hard reality is is that we are all dependent upon fossil fuels and the middle east. We are still dependent upon the currently still-primitive technological advances that we have made. And we are all extremely dependent upon the false economic system which perpetually increases the cost of items in the hope that it would drive technological progress faster, an economy that we have created in the hope of saving our asses from extinction, or worse, world war 3.

Politicians and buisnessmen who operate global buisnesses know all of this and don't care. They are in it for their own short term happiness as is most people are these days.

There is no point dreaming up big plans that we cannot possibly ever do within our lifetime. These plans for creating a rail network across Australia would put the truckers out of jobs. So politically it would be impossible.

Massive terraforming of Australia would only be possible by the next generation of humans and robots. Working hand in hand.

The only thing that I can see saving our asses politically in the short and long term would be a completely computerised political system without any human beings working in it at all except for large descision making. If we take away the human factor we can allocate jobs to a certain task based upon public demand and targets and destroy or create industries based upon a single command.

But business has far too much power and influence at the moment. That is the first thing which must fall before we can go to a fully open source democratic system that is completely computerised and removes human emotion somewhat from the factor of descision making.

The computer would in essence be doing things for the greater good and not for the individual or small minority.

The closest analogue that I can see to this would be voting Republican next time. They seem to like jobs more than they do like minorities. But remember every political party is corrupt even the good guys.

The computerised system would be online and we could allocate based upon individual votes tallied up the amount of resources that we allocate towards a certain goal. Say for example an inner rail system would get 20% of the total budget and there would be cuts elsewhere. We could allocate these funds temporarily or on a more permanent basis.

It would be far more democratic because each individual nationwide would get a say in how we do things. We would also need individual identification cards for this to be possible... So it might not go down too well with some.

It would probably look somewhat similar to the website https://www.nationstates.net/