Whatshot
What is the issue
What is the issue
Date: 2019-05-31
Names and locations of the Top 100 People Killing thePlanet were recently published in a brazen attempt, by mere citizens, to bring some accountability to bear on the industry giants, rolling around in alarming amounts of cash, while the world chokes on plastic, oil and fossil fuel fallout.
I have no doubt that this too will fall on deaf ears and we will go on killing this beautiful planet until the point of no return has disappeared from the incident horizon. One rhino at a time, one dolphin at a time, one species at a time. The human race will devour this planet, unless something radical happens. But wait, whoa! I am not insinuating that something radical should happen, neither am I advocating that I intend to do anything radical. No. I will part the lounge curtains only enough to see the travesties unfold, I may even raise my voice loud enough to be heard outside my house, bit after a short while I will calm down, reach for my remote and anesthetise my thinking mind with some television drivel or other. And there slips the world through my fingers.
And it is all about the money of course. The reason I slip back onto the couch and reach for the remote, the reason we all carry on buying our water in plastic bottles, the reason so many rhino are being poached, it boils down to economics. But it not the money itself that is the problem, it's the love of money, as JosÈ Mujica pointed out so poignantly. He was the most inspirational president to date, dubbed the World's poorest president, he donated 90 per cent of his salary to charity. His message was a simple one, people who like money too much ought to be kicked out of politics. "I'm not against people who have money, who like money, who go crazy for money," said Mujica. "But in politics we have to separate them. We have to run people who love money too much out of politics, they're a danger in politics People who love money should dedicate themselves to industry, to commerce, to multiply wealth. But politics is the struggle for the happiness of all."
Maybe my reasoning for my defeatist approach above is poignantly expressed by what Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that he suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned to fly in the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters..."
Take for instance the collapse of Venezuela, brought about by the superpower USA, it is devastating, people are suffering worse than in a war zone. Aid ships being sabotaged, a superpower using the suffering of a nation as a weapon to gain control of a lot more polutant for our planet. Eish.