In honest reflection, I think we have to admit that we have made a
real mess of the planet. Apart from ripping the planet apart to
plunder its finite resources to feed our excesses, we swamp its
rivers with noxious chemicals, and fill its atmosphere with deadly
pollutants. We destroy its forests and devastate all other forms of
animal life, as they get in the way of our “progress”. Basking in
the illusion that we are making our lives better, we destroy our only
home. We fail to grasp that spaceship earth has no escape capsule.
Greed of the few, which is contagious, is sold as “progress”
while tinsel and fancy gadgets cover the scars of our bleeding
planet. What we should bear in mind is that the planet is much more
adaptable than we are as a species, it will change and go on
spinning, while we slowly eliminate ourselves with our ever growing
greed and arrogance.
Is it too late? Can we rescue our only home? Who knows, but
any chance of rescuing our once beautiful home will require a mass
revolution of consciousness among the ordinary people, a destroying all the old tablets of
stone, a burying of the myth of “continuous growth”, a levelling
of the quality of life of the people across the planet, an end to the greed driven
excesses of the few at the expense the many. What ever rescue plan we
come up with, will most certainly need to be based on co-operation,
mutual aid, sustainability and mutual respect of all life on the
planet. The rescue plan for our survival must sit firmly on the
foundation of material needs rather than material desires. A realisation that more
pretty coloured boxes does not equate with a better quality of life.
This from The Year Of Black Clothing:
Read the full article HERE:In the Middle East, those questions look like birth defects from residuals of depleted Uranium. Beneath the Arab Spring lie unattainable food costs. In China, you have nets built around factories to prevent suicides and screens projecting sunrise and sunsets since you can’t see them through the smog. Throughout Latin America you have displaced villages and toxin spewing factories demolishing forests. Throughout the affluent nations, you have chronic debt, depression, and people buried under their possessions and gadgets as real world connections wither.You have a world overrun by resource wars, power grabs, ponzi schemes, crushed egos, isolation and separation induced anxiety and depression, suppressed populations, and unthinkable wealth. But you have no middle ground. You have no escape.
Tomorrow’s World!
See the fat cat’s grinning smile
as Corporate Capitalism runs amok,
Chasing profit as it goes
firing millions of ordinary folk.
Raping and polluting land after land,
starting bloody wars.
Toxic waste, sweat shop wages
and oil covered sea shores.
Where have all the flowers gone
beneath this ozone free sky?
To join the birds, to join the fox
on yonder plutonium field to die.
Mercury fish, strontium lamb
trees that never show a leaf,
radio active beaches, toxic streams
good lean BSE-antibiotic beef.
In a world of epidemic, plague and famine
it’s bottled water and chemical food.
Of course, it’s all tested on rats and mice
so you know its got to be good.
Beneath a sky that’s always black,
hurricane winds and endless drought,
its oxygen masks for the toxic air,
corporate profit’s what its all about.
