The fundamental reason for our failure at saving life on earth

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The fundamental reason why we are not successful with stopping global warming (support alternative energy, change the car industry), ensuring food safety, saving the bees, render agriculture sustainable, stop tax evasion, etc. etc. is what no politician is allowed to talk about publicly but what is carried internally as the  corner stone that can not be mentioned  by name, and it is the need for the so-called level playing field. 

Argument being, if the others are not doing it, we will loose our competitive advantage and loose our significance with the economical backlash that comes with it.

So, we can save the world from itself with the technology that we have and will have but we do not because the others are not. And with this ball we bounce ourselves into oblivion.

The structure of a solution to ensure a level playing field already exists. It is the UN. All we have to do is to give it decisional power. First in the areas where the world is as a whole under short term threat of annihilation or great sufferings (global warming, military industry, etc), then progressively phase less threatening areas where worldwide collaboration is critical like commerce, tax, etc.