Thursday 4 July 2019

Save The Planet, End Wars.


         I always maintain that governments who profess to be going "green" but continue to increase spending on their military, are hypocrites, charlatans and down right liars. Of course that is my opinion of all governments and their coterie. One of the biggest polluters of our atmosphere is the military, even when they are not blowing up this country or that country. Just the mere existence of the vast military budget is a blast of CO2 beyond belief. You can turn down your thermostat, boil less water in your kettle and take a shorter shower or shallower bath, but one super fighter jet taking to the air, in a few minutes, will over turn that a hundred fold. Even putting aside the mass killings, total destruction of infrastructure and unbelievable misery to countless thousands of innocent people, the shear pollution from a modern war is catastrophic for the atmosphere. A major conflict outstrips almost any other human activity in pollution.
       So to save the planet we have to start and get rid of the system that sees wars as an answer to its problems, and always keeps itself armed to the teeth to defend or expand its power and wealth. That means the dismantling of the capitalist system, and replacing it with a sustainable system based on co-operation, mutual aid and free from the profit motive, in a word, anarchism. 
        The revolutionary gesture no longer consists in a simple violent appropriation of this world; it divides into two. On the one hand, there are worlds to be made, forms of life made to grow apart from what reigns, including by salvaging what can be salvaged from the present state of things, and on the other, there is the imperative to attack, to simply destroy the world of capital.
-The Invisible Committee, Now, 2017
        Some interesting facts from Tarcoteca
         https://tarcoteca.blogspot.com/2019/06/el-ejercito-estadounidense-emite-mas.html


           A fact we should remember, the environment that we grow up in always seems normal, until we look over the wall and see, things can be different.
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2 comments:

  1. What a sad, flawed, and destructive species we are.

    And they want to colonize space. Why? To fuck up other parts of the Universe like we have done here on the most beautiful planet around?

    We deserve to go extinct, an insignificant puff of vapour that hung in the black void for a few brief moments in time.

    At least some of us would be able to say we tried to avoid that outcome.

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    1. Grand Plans

      In this world where we serve oblivion

      with a blind pride and sure conviction

      creating plans to land a man on Mars

      grandiose schemes to conquer the stars

      eyes on horizons ever further afield

      believing, to us the universe will yield.

      Yet here on Earth we fail to see

      a chaotic world of human debris,

      our magnificent results thus far

      a planet dying from a human scar,

      oblivious that our plans sublime

      are mere litter scattered in space and time.

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