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Global Crisis, National Renewal

Global Crisis, National Renewal2021

A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the United States

Charles Hugh Smith

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Nations that embrace Degrowth and social cohesion will survive. Those that cling to "waste is growth" economies and destabilizing extremes of inequality will perish. This book is the roadmap to Degrowth and social cohesion that we need to survive as a nation. National Security is not just military force. In an age of scarcity, security is a degrowth economy of energy independence, social cohesion and civic virtue. All nations, including the United States, face systemic crises at an explosive point in history. The threats to the republic are unprecedented, but the status quo is incapable of understanding that conventional responses are an accelerant of fatal synergies: the status quo is now the problem rather than the solution. These novel crises demand an entirely new Grand Strategy. The emergence of solutions is not pre-ordained; the collapse of the state is also a possibility, though far from an ideal one. We have an opportunity to redraw America’s Grand Strategy from the ground up. . Should we fail to make full use of this opportunity, the United States will fail, along with all the other nation-states that are incapable of redefining the problems (scarcity, waste is growth, social disunity) so that new solutions (degrowth) become possible. This revolutionary Grand Strategy will be the deciding factor between nation-states that fail and the few (if any) that will not just survive but actually thrive.

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First published
2021
OL Work ID
OL36443371W

Subjects

Political EconomySocial PhilosophyEconomic Conditions

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