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We are people, and as people we have a great task before us: to change the world of suffering and lies into a world that is deserving of life...
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We are people, and as people we have a great task before us: to change the world of suffering and lies into a world that is deserving of life...
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We are people, and as people we have a great task before us: to change the world of suffering and lies into a world that is deserving of life.
If we think of all the suffering in this world, then we might genuinely ask whether it deserves to exist.
Who are these terrible humans who act like this to other living beings, who torture their neighbour or torment animals for whatever reason?
Allowing our economies to destroy the environment confirms the irrationality of humanity – it is as though we are simply sawing off the branch on which we sit.
Through wars, genocide, and such acts, humanity is acting in cannibalistic fashion, with people killing their own, their race and their kind, which even animals do only exceptionally.
Modern life is empty. Do we even know we’re living? We experience the greatest highs and lows watching sporting events on television, where a handful of competitors live life out on behalf of millions of others.
The many diseases of civilisation such as depression, cancer and heart disease, mean we have reason to doubt that humanity is capable of living in a way that is at least sustainable. Humanity is being destroyed by its own lifestyle.
This means we should change our way of life, yet even when not needed we are turning to the mass use of pharmaceutical products that alleviate problems in the short term, but just cause more in the long term.
Foolish beings that prepare their food using harmful chemicals that are destroying the earth that gives them life, and destroying them too – such are human beings.
Nature, of course, finds its own way to respond, and the mass, uncontrolled rearing of cattle, poultry, and pigs has led to outbreaks of mad cow disease, swine fever, foot and mouth disease, and bird flu while humankind convinces itself that it’s nothing serious, inertia keeping us set in our old habits, thinking, "Oh well, things will work out fine" ...
How long can humankind’s challenge to nature go unpunished?
Nature responds as if it were a living being, which in some way, of course, it is. The world is getting warmer and its climate is changing, with extreme weather conditions coming as a result.
Yet humankind is convinced that it’s not a problem, and that it won’t have to change its pursuit of profit.
When the hurricane wiped out New Orleans, people shrugged their shoulders, especially those who weren't there, convinced that it was nothing special, that they'd seen worse, and that they are more or less prepared for anything.
With the media’s help, the politicians who did nothing to prevent the catastrophe again create a false sense of security, telling people that everything is okay. By their very nature the people would rather ignore the problem, so not much effort is needed to persuade them to carry on regardless. Until the next catastrophe, that is.
But the warming of the planet means that the droughts in Africa are lasting even longer, that the desert is advancing, bringing even more famine and suffering to the poorest parts of the world.
Experts are already aware that famine awaits hundreds of millions of Africans in coming years. Is anyone doing anything?
Last year, in 2005, world leaders resolved the Africa problem with great media pomp, after struggling to reach the decision to write-off the old debts of the poorest countries in the world. Debts that are more or less uncollectible, because these countries have become almost completely impoverished and international bankers have already squeezed almost everything out of them that they can.
Meanwhile, international institutions continue to act as if everything is working as it should. The United Nations is barely capable of passing the most benign resolution, with diplomats arguing for months over a particular formulation or wording that they all forget the moment the resolution is passed.
The world is moving along its own path, and self-destructing. But there is an endless supply of the soporific drugs our civilisation takes to constantly forget these problems, giving us an illusory peace, allowing us to happily march onwards – towards destruction.
Energy sources grow scarcer and scarcer, but we’re not overly worried. We consume energy without constraint and think that things will be fine.
Naively we assume that there is someone who has already thought it all through, someone who will make sure everything will be all right.
But what if nobody has thought it all through?
What if we are aboard a driverless train, heading towards the abyss?
What if we have to do the waking up and start thinking about ourselves, our life and our world?
What if we have to take the controls in our own hands, while there's still time?
The Earth, the planet that feeds and nurtures us, is starting a countdown. The cut-off point is being set.
Humanity will survive, if it wakes up and starts to act differently.
To begin with we have to wake up. You, me, as many people as possible.
The consciousness of the urgent need for humanity to act differently must be spread so that we change our everyday behavioural patterns and understand what needs to be done.
So that we finally say: “Enough! Time for action!”
Janez Drnovšek
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