The Economy Decides History but Shifting Values may Change History
Abstract:
There are clear, non-negligible symptoms that we are at a turning point in the human story. We can in fact consider that the presence of continental Unions, supranational bodies and the UN on the global stage are the progenitors of a new geopolitical interpretation. There is also a side of the world that seems to melt away from this perspective and prefers the old historical and outdated division of the world into blocks. Why should supranational organisms prevail and not the logic of opposing blocs? Well, the world has followed the logic of war to resolve conflicts, but this model of the past is now absurd, because the omnipresent danger of global warming overwhelms humanity. It is a fight for survival that we must wage together to avert the overarching threat. For this line of collaboration to prevail, the issue of the economy is always at stake. The difference in the scale of development between countries and territories has always been the origin of wars. Not only. Because the economy and relative scarcity have shaped the structure of societies and decreed the hierarchy of peoples and communities on the basis of money. For a new perspective on the history of humanity, the logic of coordinated development must prevail, which would allow us to achieve the necessary acceleration for new clean energy, to finance the study and science for the definitive farewell of fossil energy. No longer the race towards the peaks of development but a harmonious ascent that allows laggards on the path of development to gain share. There is no doubt that a common effort on the path of development could accelerate our steps towards the future. These are possible objectives if the world moves away from the logic of divisions and continues along the path of aggregation, with the UN in the lead. According to this point of view, the logic of the opposing blocs has decayed as the Soviet empire dissolved. Consider that the clash on the issues of innovations and trade between the USA and China is also intrinsically wrong. Science must be a field open to all in a collaborative context. Furthermore, the trade dispute triggered by cheap Chinese products must be the subject of diplomatic decisions and not contradictions. China faces a historic decline after a super development in recent decades. China cannot show interest in the opposing blocs. The wars in Africa have economic motivations for the exploitation of the rich mineral reserves of the Black continent. The war in Europe remains the turning point for the choice of the path of coordination of global development. Let us not forget that the long war against Ukraine is destroying resources and the post bellum transformation of the war economy and the decline in the world demand for oil of which Russia has large reserves will be decisive in the post-war period.
