Politicians - the unrepentant lot

There is growing consensus that governance has been bad the world over - not just by the state but by every institution. The ignored reality that surfaced regularly - bad governance-driven recessions - while population kept rising is now manifested boldly by the poverty-stricken protesting even on the streets of European cities.
Governments also ignored emerging consumption patterns that prompted reckless industrialisation, resultant pollution, planet warming and ever-increasing garbage accumulation. While planet warming caused climatic changes with disastrous fallout everywhere, WikiLeaks has exposed what the leaders focused on was all along.
Their priority were conspiracies to contain China, make India the Asian policeman, entice the oil-rich Central Asian states, manipulate commodity prices, sustain corrupt regimes in resource-rich but poor states, devise gadgetry to spy even on the ordinary, justify Zionist atrocities, and suppress disclosure of all these atrocities.
In the name of deregulation, they permitted pursuit of profit defying all civilised values (remember Bernard Madoff?). Corporate social responsibility - a code of ethics devised only recently - asks businesses to donate to charities, assist local authorities, and finance some social activities, but containing pollution isn't a part thereof.
Recent trend analyses predict that, while population on this planet will touch 8bn by end-2030, around 25 percent may starve because agriculture won't keep pace with population growth due to planet warming caused by industrial pollution. What the leaders are doing to prevent this scenario from crystallising is still unclear.
The G-20 states disagree over enforcing the Kyoto Protocol, subsidising a switchover to solar and wind energy in resource-poor countries, sharing global resources fairly by undoing cartels, and reducing trade imbalances to assure a cleaner, more equitable, and peaceful world. Shouldn't democracies strive to establish such an order?
The flaw is in the education system that produces worshipers of unbridled capitalism. This isn't wholly true of European universities, but universities in Asia, that blindly copy the US universities, now compound the mess. Asian societies that used to practice admirable social values could have blunted the rot but not anymore.
The capitalist mindset penetrated the state institutions as well (eg Shaukat Aziz), and the whole leadership began epitomising profit ignoring the side-effects of its pursuit. Yet, the G-20 states worry more about GDP growth, not as much about its being shared widely to pull the masses above the poverty line.
Most business schools don't specify social and environmental protection strategies as compulsory disciplines. The disciplines taught focus on maximising profit, not on the obligation to deliver value worth the price, eliminate harmful side-effects of industrial products, and ridding industries of environmental hazards.
African nations now worry about foreigners rapidly extracting and walking away with their natural resources paying them virtually zilch for survival of their future generations. The code of ethics devised for extractive industries - Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative - is a recent development that many haven't heard of.
Few multinational giants involved in oil, gas and mining sectors abide by this code - a shocking reflection on the developed states, and the vision and integrity of regimes in both developed and the under-developed (but resource-rich) states. The economic and environmental mess they are together creating is mind boggling.
Many of the resource-rich but under-developed countries are ruled by corrupt dictatorships or make-believe democracies. But elsewhere - the rich but resource-hungry West - we have 'evolved' democracies. Shouldn't they act rationally to sustain a global environment conducive for civilised existence of human life?
It requires drilling sense into the heads of rulers in the under-developed countries, not exploiting their narrow vision and self-destructive cravings. If nothing else the alarming rise in planet warming-triggered tragedies should show the West that the Third World alone won't suffer them; the West too will pay for its greed.
Pakistan's rulers need drilling a lot of sense into their heads. This lot's flawed mindset crystallised the water and energy shortfalls that threaten the existence of a country with huge potential. Courtesy democracy, this anti-KBD lot now presides over the worst-ever food and energy crises, but shamelessly denies its role therein.
To the Americans - our 'strategic' allies - what matters more is the regime's being pro-US; its vision, integrity, competence, and the rest aren't as important. Yet, the clever-by-half Americans wonder why the Pakis hate the US. Could support for a regime, that admits delivering nothing except inflation, nurture a different mindset?
The regime remains focused on imposing the RGST; no PPP politician talks about cutting state expenses and fully collecting the existing taxes to build water reservoirs, generate hydro-electricity, cut oil imports and pollution, and enhance essential services' availability to assure better life for the present and future generations.
According to WikiLeaks, the US is the regime's key advisor, but no leak contains US diplomats' worries about the waste and corruption in Pakistan's state machinery or hints about cleansing it; only recently did the US Ambassador fault this mess publically. But the US support for the RGST continues to manifest its duplicity.
Being an indirect tax (impacting the rich and the poor alike) on consumption, the RGST will make the poor poorer by adding to inflation. Like politicians everywhere else, our politicians deny realities; they want the poor to pay more, not the rich (who fund and back them) via direct taxes, to fund state exuberance, waste, and corruption.
Given this mindset of the leaders, inequalities, imbalances, chaos and conflicts will only multiply. The dumb leaders can't see the build up of global resource constraints that will worsen with unchecked environmental degradation, and accumulation and hoarding of resources by the rich nations to enslave the poor nations.
Now they are single-mindedly going after Julian Assange, proving that none of them is ready to change for the better, which is now imperative. Instead, they fault WikiLeaks for disclosing their conspiracies and heinous acts, but won't admit their crimes and face punishment for them. What an unrepentant an lot the politicians are!
But (according to Shakespeare) even Julius Caesar had to eventually admit that "the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves"; if people keep elevating the incompetent, corrupt and the scheming to their parliaments, nothing will change for the better.