What if one day--UN, NATO,G-8 and other world-recognised bodies--decide that all nuclear devices, small arms,?

Question

..airplanes, large vehicles above 2 litres, coal-burning factories, etc are to be reduced by 50%? Would societies around the world finally live in greater health, peace and plenty???

Answer 1

This society relies entirely upon exchange.  First we exchange our labor power for wages, then we exchange our wages for the goods produced by other people's labor power.  To reduce by 50% the damaging impact of those aspects of society that you have mentioned would have a similar impact on the employment market.  The very mechanics of this society are destroying this planet, and the very actions of preventing that destruction will destroy this society.  Only very wealthy people truly benefit from the innequalities generated by this society, and those very wealthy people also control the material from which we learn about the world.  Ergo, this society is destroying this planet and the people who possess the ability to inform us about that fact choose to do otherwise as it isn't in their financial interests.  Like one of my answerers said a "long" time ago: It really is all about money.  Absolutely nothing, even the planet itself, matters compared to an extremely small number of people become wealthy beyond anybody's wildest dreams.  I'm afraid we're all doomed.

Answer 2

that would be nice if

g8 actually did something

un wasn't inept

etc.

Answer 3

THAT would be your true one-world government. It would be tyrannical, and its only power to enforce such fiats would be force against sovereign nations who did not agree to these "decisions", and against sovereign individuals [see Locke and "common sovereignty".]

"Individual sovereignty was not a peculiar conceit of Thomas Jefferson: It was the common assumption of the day; "

http://www.friesian.com/ellis.htm It belongs to you, to me, to every individual born, and the dictatorial power shown by those world-recognised bodies would be the end of freedom, and the beginning of world-wide collectivism, where the individual lives for the state and the common-good.

In this country, the "common good" is the protection of the sovereign individual, because it is all the individuals who comprise the "common politiy." (common sovereignty)