Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "French President Macron urges world leaders to reject nationalism | #GME" video.

  1. Nationalism is a response to globalisation. There is a global elite that make their money by exploiting the wealth differences across the world. It is not in their interest for nations to be self sufficient, they need trade spread across the world to make them rich. The supporters of globalisation do not understand the damage it is doing to the planets environment. It accelerates the consumption of the world's natural resources and does further damage transporting the processed resources across the world. The accelerated growth may feel like progress, but it means we are living on borrowed time, not giving the planet's environment time to recover and adapt. The web of co-dependence across the world that globalisation creates reduces the resilience of the human population, concentrating production of particular products in small regions of the world in specialist centres. This makes the whole world vulnerable to localised natural disasters. The world was a much safer place when nation states were in control and were largely self sufficient. It ensured that their populations had sufficient work and had a wide range of skills. Now the global economy is dominated by multinational corporations, driven by unfettered capitalism. This is creating a global ultra rich elite few, where most of the world's wealth is concentrated. The supports of globalisation point to the accelerating progress that it has brought, failing to realise that it is like an engine running without a speed regulator, it is accelerating towards its own thermal destruction, running too fast to be lubricated, it will eventually cease or simply stop, when the resources are gone. The system of nation states may result in slower growth, but it is more sustainable and resilient.
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