The public needs the sort of education that the state seems unwilling to give.
Too many people are just sleepwalking between the next football match or episode of Eastenders. The system we have all grown up with is unsustainable.
This is not just some crackpot theory, the cracks are not just showing, they are gaping!
If we change now the earth has enough resources left for a reasonably 'soft' landing into a new sustainable way of life - but it will be quite different from the current one. We have absolutely run out of time to let the vested interests just carry on caring only about their own profits. The end of the road is here,now, this year. People all over the world are waking up to this reality.
A key component to this is the end of ever more outrageous military spending. We are getting critical sort not just of Oil but of other raw materials including 'rare earth' minerals. To spend millions, and sometimes billions and the efforts of thousands of skilled people to make things that in the end just get blown up is just plain nuts on a finite world.
We don't need the threat of nuclear weapons for mutually assured destruction, any conflict over finite resources that risks loss of those resources is a conflict neither side can win.
We will always need armies to protect against groups of people that are evil or just plain greedy. However the AK47 has proven over many years to be a very effective killing machine. Do we really need ways of killing men that are millions of times more costly so that military men have to think twice about deploying them? Eurofighter jets are over a BILLION dollars each! Bigger pieces of military might like warships cost multiple billions. The brains and production facilities used for such folly would be much better engaged in finding alternatives to the fossil fuels that are running out.
If we have more democracy and more emphasis on fairness and conflict resolution the need to fight should decrease.
We HAVE to at least give this new way our best shot. We cannot just carry on the way we are and the alternative is a very destructive global war fighting over dwindling resources, destroying many of them in the process.
Those in power hopefully have the sense,when they see just how many people already know the truth, to see that treating their populations as adults for a change and letting them take responsibility for what happens to the human race next is the least worst outcome.
It is not going to be easy though, some people when woken from a pleasant dream can be very grumpy indeed. We have no choice but to work for a fairer world, we cannot afford to let it get to a fight as NOBODY will win.
That is the stark truth as I see it.
On the plus side it is more freedom for humanity but with freedom comes responsibility that cannot be shirked. Even if they really, really don't want to we must make everyone face up to their responsibilities as citizens. Everyone must pull their weight from the richest plutocrat to the poorest benefits culture 'reject'.
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