i think you've missed the real answer within my reply
the only answer that this question is ever going to have is US (no, not the united states)
we have the power but we choose not to wield it - we sit and watch while the world burns and only get bothered by it when the smell comes through our windows
we don't vote we don't help we are selfish
yes some do but the majority don't and hey ho - that's where we are today with a world that is so close to self-imploding
if there's shit outside your house then go and get a bucket and mop it up or if you prefer then just step over it but don't then complain about it
everyone should look in the mirror and ask themselves - what do i do? what have i done? what can i do?
because it's not their problem - it's yours as it's everyone's
wanna change the fucking world - then it starts with that man/woman/gender-neutral/non-binary person in the mirror
You could argue that if we're going down the 'what you HAVE to do route' then the 'Right' is more correct than many on here (including me) would choose.
After all nature shows that 'survival of the fittest', 'dog eat dog' and 'the individual' is king.
But I'd say that's why the 'left' is progressive - because the 'right' doesn't take into account the good that a combined society can achieve. 'Dog eat Dog' was OK many centuries ago, but by working together then societies are much more than the sum of their parts. The 'Right' wants to put the 'dross' of their societies into ever more turgid and boxed-in boxes. The advantage of this is that the 'alphas' and the rich benefit and fulfil their personal 'dog eat dog' and 'survival of the fittest' tropes.
The 'left' wants to promote socialism (of one kind of another) - working together towards an end so that everyone in that society benefits. Except that quite often, when the 'left' gets power then they just turn into another version of the 'dog eats dog' 'survival of the fittest' branch.
What's the answer? As has been said a few times on the thread - 'we' as a species have found a way not to blow ourselves up (And we've had that chance for over 70 years now) - I think ecological turmoil is going to happen because of global warming, running out of fossil fuels, religion v no-religion, power-struggles, big vs. small, corporations v governments and all the rest..
.. that's all happening now..
.. and what we've seen is that the world somehow gets to be that little bit better after each massive event. Humanity seems to pause and think 'Fucking hell. What the actual shit." and then does something about it.
But the problem we've had and will have for the forseeable is that this upturn in 'good' tends to be fairly local - for your own people - but again, after WW II - the EU saying 'No. This won't happen again" was a great way to pull countries together for the mutual benefit of everyone (With the problems it was always going to have of course)
The UK has shit the bed and fucked themselves, but the world doesn't need to be concerned about how fucking stupid the people of the UK are. Countries can come back from the brink - the isolationilism that the US has kicked on several times is now being reversed by Biden and that has to be the key I think - all of mankind working together for one purpose, for one aim.
Can that ever happen? Dunno.
Personally I think that it will only ever happen when some of us leave this lump and go to other lumps. Once you have more than one patch then that brings things into perspective. The sheer amount of materials and water and oxygen available in the solar system is way more than we first thought - if we can start getting colonies and more importantly heavy industry into orbit then that is going to help a lot - once you have good routes to shift shit then we can look at removing the toxins, poisons and radioactive shit from our biosphere.
And that's likely to be the thing that finally does us in - running out of good air and water and not being able to avoid radioactivity, microplastics, toxins and all the baggage that comes with that.
The good news is that once we're dead and gone and all the waste has degraded and gone through the cycle of being eradicated, the species that follows us in 2 or 10 or 50 million years gets another crack at it