Just imagine – if the UK was suddenly attacked by a foreign country, if a powerful nation was trying to invade us and we found ourselves at war – what would we do?
It is simple – we would mobilise the country. We would go on to a war footing. We would enlist large numbers of troops. We would set our factories producing weapons, planes, ships and munitions. The whole economy would move on to a war footing. We would fight for our future. No price would be too high.
But we are at war.
We are battling not just for the future of our country but the future of the world.
The enemy are the capitalists who are presently plundering it for profit, who are clearing great swathes of rainforest, who are spraying the crops with insecticides and herbicides that ruin the soil and kill off our butterflies and bees, who are overfishing our oceans, harpooning whales, hunting for trophies, logging or mining and still using fossil fuels.
These are the people whose mantra is EXPANSION!! Who put PROFIT BEFORE PEOPLE AND NATURE!
The result of their actions are that the planet is warming and biodiversity is plummeting. They are destroying nature.
We have a battle for the future.
If we lose then we are looking at a dire future. Nature will be wrecked with up to a million species extinct. The ecosystems of our world will be ruined. Sea levels will rise putting most of our cities under water along with much of our farmland. Climate changes will cause droughts, floods, hurricanes and tornados. There will be mass starvation, mass migrations, wars for resources, conflict and the end to civilisation as we know it. It could even herald the end of mankind.
It seems to me that this is a war worth fighting – especially when you consider that the means to rectify the situation are no where near as drastic as engaging in a real war.
How do you get people to care? Most of the economic power is in the west where the common belief is that the world is supposed to end. “If it is the will of God, what’ya gonna do?” GROG
Grog – I guess the answer is to convince people that all this religion business is just superstitious nonsense hanging on from our primitive past!
If we can move on then we can start to care about living in the moment and looking after both ourselves and the planet we live on. It’s all we have and it’s our life-support system.
Right on. Belief in the supernatural is delusional, and the messianic monotheists have taken the delusion to new heights claiming that their story is the story of the beginning and the end of humanity. GROG
Freud said that religion was a mass psychosis. I think he is right. The amount of time effort and hatred that has been invested in it is phenomenal. It’s energy that could better be directed elsewhere.
We need to just realize that the there really is an end to life and that anything beyond is a delusion. We can still ‘believe’, but it should be recognized for what it is, a world created by the human mind. GROG.
Exactly Grog – live every minute to the max – it’s all we’ve got.