Pissing in the wind – Fiddling while Rome burns – Losing the plot!

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Do you ever feel like your pissing in the wind? That you are blithely going about your life without a thought for the big issues?

Do you sometimes think that all everyone wants is to have a good time and forget it all?

Do you ever think that all people are interested in is ‘The X Factor’, ‘Strictly come dancing’, ‘Coronation Street’, ‘Football’ and ‘The Voice’?

Does it worry you that issues such as death, war, environmental destruction, religious fanaticism and social inequality are things that most people don’t want to think about?

Are you surprised when Ebola, Bird-flu and Sars come knocking?

Do you feel powerless to make any difference to those issues so it’s best left to those in charge of us?

Well there’s no need to worry! – Keep reading the blog at Opher’s World! Get mentally involved and change the Zeitgeist!!

CHANGE THE ZEITGEIST!!!

 

Anthropocene Apocalypse – The massacre started with Agriculture!

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Back in the distant past we were all nomadic hunter gatherers. We roamed through the jungles, savannahs, deserts, forests and plains following the herds and living off the land. We respected nature, felt part of it and attempted to live in harmony with it. We blessed it because it fed and clothed us. The ethos of the hunter gatherer, such as the American plains Indian, was to move through the land without leaving a mark.

When we turned to agriculture nature suddenly became the enemy and was no longer the host. It was something to be fought and defeated. We tamed it, ravaged it and laid it waste. The wild beasts threatened our crops, our live-stock and our lives. They had to be destroyed. We needed space to grow our food and took it from the land. As our numbers grew out of balance with nature we took more than could be sustained.

Now our numbers and greed threaten the survival of all living things on this planet.

What can be done?  We can start by altering the zeitgeist!

Read about the problem and solution in my book Anthropocene Apocalypse!

It could be the start of something big! Let’s make a start!

Anthropocene Apocalypse – a world crisis?

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As the world population soars towards a projected 10 Billion.

As the world’s mammals have been decimated to 44% of what they were 40 years ago!

As the world’s invertebrate population has crashed by nearly half in the last forty years!

As the elephant and lion now join the tiger, rhino and jaguar on the endangered list!

Are we approaching a day when the natural world will be nothing more than a footnote in the history books?

Will we be showing our children and grandchildren the remnants of our wild-life in zoos?

Will we be pollinating our flowers by hand?

Does anybody actually care?

You can read about my own observations and feelings about this in my book:

Please give it a read and pass it round to all your friends. It is time we did something about it. We can alter the zeitgeist!

Anthropocene Apocalypse – Isaac Asimov’s vision of the Earth as a world of steel could be real.

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Back in the 1950s Isaac Asimov wrote some brilliant Sci-fi books.

In his dystopian vision overpopulation had created an Earth that was so overpopulated that there were no longer open spaces. All the natural world had been destroyed. The whole Earth was one huge city. People lived in caves of steel. A number of other Sci-fi writers have painted similar visions of the future.

It all seemed very far-fetched and futuristic. It does not seem that way now. We appear to be sleep-walking into this nightmare.

My book ‘The Anthropocene Apocalypse’ illustrates clearly the rapid speed of this approaching nightmare. There is a mammalian holocaust as a result of the rapidly expanding population of humans. This has to be addressed urgently.

Please read my book and help change things. The solutions are explained.

Anthropocen Apocalypse – Chilling confirmation!

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The chilling news that is emerging about the state of the planet’s environment is confirming the message in my book the Anthropocene Apocalypse. Scientific evidence now shows that over the past four decades:

  • There has been a global 45% reduction in invertebrates
  • There has been a global 56% reduction in mammals
  • Human beings and their pets and livestock now make up 95% of all mammalian life
  • That the destruction of forests is unsustainable
  • The destruction of wild mammals is unsustainable
  • That fishing is unsustainable
  • That pollution is global
  • That global warming as a result of human activity is undeniable
  • That human overpopulation is the cause
  • That the population of humans is out of control and catastrophic

My book is a Biologists personal observations of the devastation we are causing globally and what we need to urgently do to put it right.

Please read it and help stop this destruction from taking place.

The Sixties Spirit is still Alive!!!

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Some people may think that I am stuck within the Sixties. That is not true.

The sixties was a great idealistic, transformation period of time to have lived through but I am not hopelessly adhered to its era in some time-warp. The sixties was never a fashion for me. It was a period of time that I was thoroughly at home in because it mirrored the ethos of my personality.

I am a revolutionary idealist. I believe we should oppose things that are wrong and put them right. I believe we can make a better world.

Prior to the 1960s England was a stuffy, hide-bound society, drab and boring. People were stereotypically harnessed to a limited lifestyle, appearance and career. England was ruled by an elite with a clear class-ridden hierarchy, in which you knew your place, and an old-boy network that kept things in a reactionary rut.

It was grey and dour.

The sixties brought a revolution that blew that out of the window. It is that spirit of liberalisation and liberation that I still celebrate. It is a revolution that did not cease with the sixties but continues to this day. There is still much that needs addressing. The class structure, old-boy network and reactionary forces are still in existence and still maintaining those social structures that maintain the power balance and dictate personal freedoms.

I celebrate the spirit of the sixties because it brought:-

  1. Hedonism. It was alright to enjoy yourself and have fun. The stiff upper lip and repressed stoicism of English culture was discarded. We could let our hair down and actively seek pleasure.
  2. Liberalisation. You could enjoy sex without it being an evil that could not be mentioned. You could film it and write about it without it being prurient and dirty. Sex was a natural part of life to be celebrated and not hidden away. That included homosexuality. You could look at other religions and cultures as being interesting and of equal respect. You could look at other people as being equal. The days of the superiority of the English and their great Empire was over.
  3. Irreverence. There was a new questioning of authorities. It was no longer thought that our elders and those in authority were to be trusted or that they knew better than us. It was no longer God, King and Country. People had minds of their own, ideas and views and openly questioned their leaders. They did not automatically believe that the policies proposed, including war and economics, was in the interests of the country, individuals or the world. They began to openly protest and make their views heard.
  4. Individuality. You could dress and think differently to those around you. You were free to live your life how you chose and not be forced to conform to the wishes of the establishment.
  5. Global perspectives. The environmental movement, Women’s liberation, anti-war movement, Civil Rights and Social Equality had their roots in sixties ideology. We felt we could change the world. The Hegemony of big business and political and religious power could not continue to dictate world policy with impunity.

These were the precepts I took forward from the sixties that have suffused my life and philosophy. These are the ideals and freedoms I have made the corner-stone of my actions. I have taken the respect, tolerance, freedom and fun and tried to put that into everything I do and stand for. I am not stuck in the sixties. I use the motivating force of those days of rebellion to inspire the future.

The sixties wasn’t a fashion or period of Rock Music it was the spawning of a idealistic social force that continues to transform the world. It created a new Zeitgeist that is still flourishing today.

Let’s help make that positive Zeitgeist even more powerful and transformative! We have the power to solve the population explosion, Racism, Environmental degradation, Sexism, War and exploitation. We have the power!

You may like to read more in my book on life in the sixties – The Times and Tales of a Sixties Freak :

Or the story of my life with Rock Music in – ‘In Search of Captain Beefheart’

Or my book on the Environmental catastrophe happening around us in ‘Anthropocene Apocalypse’

Or my book on my life in Education ; ‘A passion for Education – the Story of a Headteacher’

Or check out my other novels, books on Rock and Sci-fi.

Thank you

 

Politics and making the world a better place!

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Have you noticed how politicians are the last people we should be trusting to put things right. Every time we come up to an election they tell us all the great things they are going to put right but when they are in power they never do.

This is because:

  1. They lie.
  2. They are only concerned with two things – votes and power.
  3. They are in the grip of their sponsors who hold the power behind the throne.
  4. They think short term.
  5. They won’t do anything unless it brings in votes, money or more power
  6. They do not really care what happens to people, the environment, the world or country. They only care about themselves.
  7. They go into politics to become rich and powerful.
  8. Anything long term is not going to help them get back in.
  9. They think politically and not logically.

The fact that they want to be politicians should warn us that they are the last people on Earth we should give power to!

We always end up voting for the lesser of two evils though! What choice do you have? And how come we often end up with the worst of the two possibilities?

A new Zeitgeist would be nice!

45% decline in invertebrates a catastrophe for mankind!

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The 45% decline in invertebrates is catastrophic for the environment. Invertebrates form the basis of the food webs for most living organisms. Without invertebrates there is no food for our wild birds or mammals. Our soil is replenished by invertebrates. Our plants are pollinated by them. They are integral to all life on this planet.

The human population has become out of control.

Our use of pesticides has become suicidal.

Read about a Biologist’s witness accounts of what is happening around the world in his frightening book – Anthropocene Apocalypse at Amazon.

Overpopulation leading to worldwide destruction of mammals!

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Ten thousand years ago Human Beings and all their livestock & pets made up 0.1% of mammalian life on this planet.

200 hundred years ago that had risen to around 11%

Now it is a staggering 97%!

– All the other wild mammals make up only 3% of the total mammal population! That is a disaster!

Read all about one man’s views on what is happening to the planet from the witness accounts of Biologist Opher Goodwin in his book Anthropocene Apocalypse – available at Amazon –

45% Decline in invertebrates in the past 4 decades! Shocking news!

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World-wide there has been a 45% decline in invertebrates due to the huge increase in human population.

Our mammals are being slaughtered on an unprecedented scale.

Read all about one man’s experience of this terrible destruction in Anthropocene Apocalypse – available at Amazon