Global Warming, FOR REAL THIS TIME. The United Nations has released a report based on the most recent study of our effects on rising global temperatures. We must develop a sense of urgency they say. We are on the edge of the brink and the consequences of inaction are evident and devastating.
The report describes the stark life we will face on earth as the planet’s climate continues in a downward spiral. The number of people likely to suffer is a lack of clean water will continue to rise, although in action will likely double the number of people suffering maladies of thirst.
The nation’s of the world have largely chosen to discard the future of life as we know it in favor of the ongoing rise in the wealth of the 0.01% of the planets wealthiest people. The fact that such a small percentage of people stand to gain from the ongoing geocide is a big part of what is hurtful to the masses of humanity. Seeing that there are a select few who decide which companies will harm the living ecosystem and which companies will chose to harm life through their profits taking.
While reading an article about the rise in global temperatures I was struck by the understanding that our future is largely in the hands of people who genuinely don’t care. They are actually excited about the profits and the deaths of the poor.
Bare in mind these are the same people who already profit off of ongoing wars and incarceration. These are the people who make their yacht payments with money earned off of slave labor, prison labor, and child labor. These are not the sort of people who you want to see at the helm of our global ship. And yet these are the people who our elected officials kowtow to, our elected officials kneel and grovel begging for scraps off of the table of the big boys while watching the serfs physically eating out of the trash.Our collective humanity as a nation is too busy keeping up with the Joneses to give much of a care for the effects of their consumerism. And recycling isn’t really a net gain for our planet. The fuel efficiency of our vehicles is set to take a hit under our current dictator in the USA. While simultaneously the production of solar power and wind power is being staggered. We have seen the effects of nuclear power in form of the most recent meltdown in Japan. It’s simply not logical to continue poisoning the fish bowl which we are all bound to.
The Paris agreement was the first ever climate compact made on a global level. Nations around the world came together to create a template for international action to combat carbon emissions. But the Paris agreement was always a voluntary program.
So the benchmarks laid out by the global superpowers were never intending to force nations to meet these goals. In fact the goals laid out were meant to be attainable both politically and economically. But ultimately the Paris agreement was meant to draw people together internationally more than to actually affect the overall carbon footprint created by industries of the world.The facts as I see them seem to indicate that the wealthiest nations create the largest amount of carbon. Between our high meat diet, our internal combustion engines and air conditioning we are actively shitting our own beds. But the stink hasn’t quite gotten to the point where we are willing to take the needed steps to get our ship together. As citizens we are largely powerless to affect the environment, we don’t own the lands or resources and the result of this is the massive discontent we see on the rise. We The People see the climate catastrophe accelerating and our leaders failing to address the dangers we face as a result of the human caused global warming.
Whether it’s deforestation, or coal mining, or modern agriculture our so called economic drivers are actually pushing down our chances of survival as a species. The choices of the international bankers are in essence the death of humanity. We see the banksters continuing to invest in fossil fuel expansion and deforestation. We see the clear cutting of rainforests to create palm farms, causing threatened and as yet undiscovered species to scramble to survive. The profits are given priority over life. This is the bottom line where our global values are concerned, the poor want to survive and have a basic livable quality of life. While the wealthy are physically choking the poor out with pollutants.
Forcing the poor to make sacrifices for the sake of the future wealthy seems to be the solution our dictators are shoving down our throats. The ultra wealthy decide which programs will be funded in our collective efforts to mitigate the damage being caused by the very same banksters.
They are defunding solutions with one hand while funding the global destruction of ecosystems with the other. We are genuinely at the whims of the ruling class. We want to create human carbon sinks, but there isn’t money for saving the planet, heck there isn’t money for halting the destruction. So why would there be money for making it more livable.One of the people I follow in this strange social network world of connectivity is a man from Indonesia. He has taken it upon himself to plan trees. He has pictures of himself planting trees with his children. This man has very little in the way of money, he relies on the people who see his posts to send him PayPal donations to plant trees, and he has planted thousands! This sort of personal choice to create a more livable world for future generations through personal direct action is what is called for. Each of us needs to be like this man, setting aside whatever so called needs that we have in order to act in service of the larger needs presented to our entire species.
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