{"id":36706,"date":"2018-08-16T06:58:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T11:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36706"},"modified":"2018-08-16T06:58:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T11:58:33","slug":"the-absolute-futility-of-global-dominance-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36706","title":{"rendered":"The Absolute Futility of \u2018Global Dominance\u2019 in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/08\/15\/the-absolute-futility-of-global-dominance-in-the-21st-century\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Absolute Futility of \u2018Global Dominance\u2019 in the 21st Century<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>It seems certain that the foolish chest-pounders now in charge of our nation have found a time machine to transport them back to 19th century where they have decided to mimic the slogan of faded English imperialism that \u201cthe sun never sets on the British Empire.\u201d How else to explain their recent proclamations that the United States must have \u201cglobal energy dominance\u201d and \u201cAmerican dominance in space\u201d? Calling for global dominance in the 21st century, with 7 billion humans on the planet and only 325 million Americans\u00a0\u2014 about 4 percent \u2014\u00a0is not only inane, it\u2019s dangerous and absolutely futile.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the pack on the call for \u201cglobal energy dominance\u201d is none other than former Montanan Ryan Zinke, now secretary of the Interior in the Trump administration. Of course Zinke has yet to explain why we should drill, frack, mine and export every possible source of fossil fuel in our nation. Nor has he detailed any benefits that will accrue to the populace from such a policy.<\/p>\n<p>What we do know is that Trump and Zinke are willing to destroy existing national monuments, wildlife refuges, seashores and endangered species to achieve their bizarre fantasy of global energy dominance.<\/p>\n<p>One might well wonder why any nation would want to exhaust its own reserves of fossil fuels as quickly as possible knowing they are non-renewable. One might also wonder why selling off those resources to our global economic competitors makes any sense whatsoever. And finally, one might question why a man who rode his \u201cAmerica First\u201d slogan to the White House wouldn\u2019t take care of America first \u2014\u00a0instead of leaving us with the inevitable land, water and air pollution as well as the associated illnesses and deaths from massive fossil fuel energy production.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Absolute Futility of \u2018Global Dominance\u2019 in the 21st Century It seems certain that the foolish chest-pounders now in charge of our nation have found a time machine to transport them back to 19th century where they have decided to mimic the slogan of faded English imperialism that \u201cthe sun never sets on the British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[5795,14764,5493,259,21255,4374,21256,3520],"class_list":["post-36706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-21st-century","tag-america-first","tag-counterpunch","tag-empire","tag-george-wochenski","tag-global-dominance","tag-global-energy-dominance","tag-imperialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36707,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36706\/revisions\/36707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}